Installation

Installation of the CoolJag Falcon 92 Cu should only take a few minutes. We will show you the Intel LGA Socket 775 installation here. While it is fairly simple there are a few small gotchas that make it a bit more difficult.


Look at the X the metal clip with their mounting holes are forming. These metal clips are removable by losening the four screws located right around the heatsink base. This way you can install mounting clips for the other supported sockets. This is a very nice system that works well and is easy to use.


The black metal backplate is very sturdy, but it means you have to remove the motherboard for installation. The holes are a bit raised so they will sit in the screw holes on the motherboard and make it a bit easier to line up the screws.


The black backplate is fixed to the motherboard using those brass screws. They can be easily turned with your fingers. If you look at the picture you can see that small signal traces are running where the screw would make contact with the motherboard. To me this looks extremely dangerous. If you scratch and damage one of the traces somehow your motherboard will be toast.


That's why I suggest you put a washer between screw and motherboard. I used a white plastic one usually used in watercooling, one of these little red paper washers used with motherboards would work even better because they are softer.


After applying thermal paste on the CPU you put the cooler on top of the socket and line it up with the mounting holes. I found it easy if you hold the cooler with one hand over the socket, not touching the thermal paste, and put the screws in with your finger so the cooler can't move a lot messing up the thermal paste.


The four screws around the socket have to be tightened down using a screw driver. That's where you usually start looking for the shortest screwdriver you have. The problem is that the heatsink shape will not put the screwdriver on in a straight fashion. While it is absolutely doable using the screwdriver at an angle it will be hard tightening down the screws properly.
I think this is a bad solution, Cool Jag should have at least included a 90° screwdriver tool or thumbscrews.