Quote Originally Posted by [XC] itznfb View Post
any cooler with the plastic intel mounts, can be bolted down easily. use the backplate and bolts (loose the top plate) from the thermalright kit.

http://www.petrastechshop.com/thlgbo.html

it fits perfectly.
While that may be the case, then I would be testing a "modified" heatsink against unmodified heatsinks and it would no longer provide as as close a representation of what the average user can expect out of the box (kinda like how lapping some heatsinks may help them perform better but it isn't entirely appropriate to compare unless you're lapping all of them).

Quote Originally Posted by gundamit View Post
Can't rely on the IFX-14 compatibility chart ... at least in regard to their listing of the Gigabyte 965P-DS3. Doesn't seem "okay" with the number of issues Petra mentioned.
Considering the compatibility issues that people have run into with the HR-09 MOSFET coolers (hence the the dig about the HR-09's at the end of the article), this isn't surprising at all.