I just upgraded my year old Scythe Infinity to a Thermalright Ultra 120 extreme (T.R.U.E) ...

Just a hats-off to this thread because I'm using the very same mounting technique to gain a nice 3 degree advantage over the stock T.R.U.E mounting method:

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High Pressure Mount on T.R.U.E.



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Another funny thing ...

I also had a chance to photograph my modified mount mod which I've been using for over a year now on my previous (much loved) Scythe Infinity ...

As it turns out ... many moons back when first doing the mod on my Infinity, it turns out the springs I had simply didn't have near enough tension to work effectively ...

So being in the throws of mod-dom and all ... sweating, hoping things would work out and then freaking cause the springs sucked, I wildly hacked apart a bic pen and used 1/4" segments in place of the springs.

It was a bit rigid but it worked like a magic trick:

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I was proud of that for a year but only just this week have I been able to post some evidence of it's quite ugly but effective glory.