holy shit is the CPU cooler y’all recommended fucking massive lol. like it’ll definitely fit in the case and I’m guessing it’s not going to warp the motherboard with its weight or anything but goddamn is my CPU a nuclear reactor?

I’m definitely not complaining (unless the weight is going to break my motherboard - then I’ll complain lol) because I’d much rather have drastically too much cooling than too little but omg

@kasdeya what was recommendes? Most coolers have the heaviest part mounted to the case with a hose/connector that's pasted to the cpu so it shouldn't add weight on crucial components

@lycanmatriarch it’s a Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE and I’m going to be using it for my AMD 7600X

and phew I’m glad. yeah I’ve never heard of a CPU cooler breaking a motherboard with its weight so I guess it makes sense that there would be a solution to this, but I’m just amazed at how heavy and bulky this thing is lol

@kasdeya Ah I was thinking liquid coolers not air coolers my bad. But at 120g it's actually lighter than it looks.

@lycanmatriarch huh really? the box it came in is really heavy but I’m not going to take it out until tomorrow when the case arrives. in that case I bet there’s just some other stuff in there that weighs a lot

@lycanmatriarch @kasdeya

that's only for AIO water coolers....

@kasdeya I misread the weight, but it's just under 1kg

@pharmafemboy @kasdeya yeah corrected in the other thread

@lycanmatriarch ohh that makes more sense lol

@kasdeya for reference I used something multiple times the kg of force pushing my gpu into its slot yesterday and didn't break my board

@lycanmatriarch that is really reassuring - thank you. I’m always so worried about bending a mobo so hard that it just fucking snaps like a potato chip. I hate having to press anything into it or attach anything heavy to it. but that’s a really good reference point for how sturdy these things are

@kasdeya sorry for all of the confusion - work really knocked me out

@lycanmatriarch aw no you’re fine lol. I can barely think most days so I totally understand how that is - plus PC hardware stuff is pretty fucking complicated, as I’ve learned recently