Installation

Installing this beast is as  (to quote Pauline The Restart Officer in the League of Gentlemen TV-Series) simple as Mickey. Just place the mounting screws underneath the correct backing plate and voila almost ready to go. However here we have an issue, we would have preferred to have the mounting posts LOCKED  into placed before placement behind the motherboard, in order to make the installation as quick as possible. However the mounting posts remain loose until the retaining nuts are placed on the top side of the system board.

Place the clear plastic washers through the posts one at a time and mount the rubber retaining nuts, which hold the mounting posts in place. Select the  correct CPU Top-side plates and place (bare in mind the orientation of these plates determines which way the whole tower faces) them on top of the mounting posts. All that is left then is to tighten the top plate locking nuts.

Having made sure the CPU Integrated Heatsink Spreader is clean, then place a 5.5mm blob of IC Diamond on top. The latter product can be purchased from Overclockers Uk for £6.99

Tear off the tower base contact sticker and carefully place on top of the processor and then install the locking plate (which is shown below) Raijintek has seen fit to include a rather long screw driver, which interestingly enough serves a dual purpose.

The previously mentioned long screw driver serves to tighten the tower locking (as shown below) plate as shown below…..

Also the blade of the screwdriver serves as an excellent back scratcher, only without the added grumblings and complaints that one can expect from the missus!

Here we have the first fan, in which we install four anti-vibration mounts, the installation of which depends on the orientation of the fan itself.  However here we encounter our first issue as due tot he dimensions of the tower and the fan placed here it effectively blocks access to the first RAM bank and thus prevents any RAM module with a good heatsink spreader. This leaves us with three options:

• Purchase low-profile memory and install before attaching the fan
• or Place the first fan in the centre of tower and PULLING the air through rather than pushing.
• Re-orientate the whole tower (but this leaves cold air coming form the top of the case,  however the hot air is then directly pointed towards the graphics card.

Given this situation the only way would be to utilise option two as shown below.

This system is the only realistic option for this motherboard. The first fan pulls the heat away from tower one and through into tower two. The second fans pulls hot air away through tower two and out of the case via its rear.

Remember earlier when we were discussing the two Raijintek fans that we had a feeling that a ‘trick’ was missed? Well here it is and that given there are two fans within the TSIS product then it would have been prudent to daisy chain the fans so only one port on the motherboard is taken up rather than two.

Finally let us get on with the testing and see exactly how effective this product is.

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