I did with a good quality tissue paper, it did the job. Also as I mentioned earlier, this cooler needs the stock back plate to be removed. Clean the paste with a non-abrasive cloth. You would see some greasy stuff on the processor – this is nothing but the thermal compound that is put between the proccy and the heatsink for better heat transfer. Once the heatsink is off, you can keep it aside.

You might need to apply slight force to remove it, not so much that you remove the proccy from the socket ! Slight clockwise and anti clockwise movement and the heatsink is off. There will be a blue/red lever, simply pull it up. Once the lever is free, remove the heatsink from the proccy. Now remove the CPU fan cable, and unlock the lever which holds the stock heatsink on the FX6300. Once this is done, remove the graphic card, RAM and any other expansion card used. Make sure you are not carrying any static charge ( you can either wear an anti-static wrist band or simply touch any metal object before proceeding). Open the cabinet and unplug all the wires, Mobo Power connector (24 pin and 4/6 pin connectors), Optical Drive Cables, Cabinet Header Cables (Front USB, Audio cables, Speakers). First and foremost step would be to unplug all the cables from the cabinet. If you don’t want to get into this, you can opt for Hyper TX3cooler which is a much smaller cooler and doesn’t require removal of the mobo.

So lets begin, one thing to note – Hyper 212X is a big cooler and thus requires you to remove the stock backplate, for which mobo has to be removed from the cabinet. CoolerMaster Hyper 212X CPU Cooler – added just now 😛ĬoolerMaster Hyper 212x installtion on AMD FX6300 processor.AMD FX6300 Hexa Core Processor 3.5 GHz – Unlocked.

And a brief intro to my rig ( not a beast, but does what I need 😛) Anyways, I got this cooler last week – thanks to some quick shipping and prompt service by Flipkart. So, here I am giving a full guide to install CoolerMaster Hyper 212X on AMD FX6300 Processor.īefore I begin, few terms that I’ll frequently use in the post: Proccy->Processor, Mobo->Motherboard. Before writing this post, I surfed lots of blogs/website for a dedicated Installation Guide for Coolermaster Hyper 212X CPU Cooler on AMD FX 6300, but couldn’t find one 🙁 There were many videos and blogs for AMD AM3+ socket (the one that FX6300 uses) but nothing specific for this one.

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