So, i recieved my orochi yesterday. Everything was going great until i looked at the mounting system. The mounting bracket was to long and couldn't be modified, so genius that i am decided to attempt a "capaciter relocation mod" where i would unsolder the caps from the front and mount them on the back of the board. After i removed the caps, i had to bend the bracket a bit to ensure there was pressure up against my de lidded e7200, and the brittle chrome plated shiiit broke! So i then spent the next 5 hours turning the back plate that they gave into a bracket. (it involved lots of drilling, and cutting, but in the end it worked great. I'm a little embarrassed about the cap removal,(which wouldn't have been necessary if i had just done the bracket mod) and it was a bit obvious that with my puny 20 watt soldering iron, they weren't going back on the board. So after i fashioned the bracket, i decided to test it anyway, and the board is still alive!!!! This ds3l is missing a total of 5 caps, has the vdroop hard mod, and one of the coils has it's plastic box thing partially broken off, and a motley bunch of heatsinks cover much of the top. Now all i need is the nbcore mod, and the fsb will be flying!!!
As for the orochi temps, i could not be happier. This is replacing a scythe infinity, which was giving me 83 Celsius degrees at full load. This tops out at 60 after about 30 mins and then raises along with the ambient temps. With EIST on, my idle temps are 28 and 32 degrees!
It fits in my case, a cm 690, but don't plan on mounting any fans on the inside of the case.
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