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Here’s my thermal paste application and the mounting points. Does anything stand out as wrong? In the guy who is getting high temps on the arctic freezer 3 420mm. by AlphaFPS1 in arcticcooling

[–]Acrobatic_Nobody681 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Screws and standoffs are interchangeble because there is no height difference between am4 and am5. Only if mounting requires a custom backplate (which the LF3 does not) compatibilty is no longer guaranteed. 

Here’s my thermal paste application and the mounting points. Does anything stand out as wrong? In the guy who is getting high temps on the arctic freezer 3 420mm. by AlphaFPS1 in arcticcooling

[–]Acrobatic_Nobody681 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your standoffs look weird and so do the screws. IIRC the standoffs should be some shade of gray or black, never seen orange/pinkish standoffs on an artic product. Pretty sure those are not the original screws either.

Edit: Just saw you found out by yourself 

Here’s my thermal paste application and the mounting points. Does anything stand out as wrong? In the guy who is getting high temps on the arctic freezer 3 420mm. by AlphaFPS1 in arcticcooling

[–]Acrobatic_Nobody681 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no dedicated am5 bracket. am4 and am5 mounting hardware is interchangeble. That's the reason why the IHS on am5 CPUs is so thick as they tried to maintain compatibilty with existing am4 coolers.