Quote Originally Posted by millertime359 View Post
Yea, I found out how much of a pain those standoffs can be when I installed my GTX295 block. It would also be nice if they could apply the thermal pads for you too. That is really time consuming cutting those out.
I don't mind doing the thermal pads - I imagine they might slink off if they were pre-applied without glue. For the stand offs, I found putting the screws in the middle ones, then adjusting the edge ones with tweezers if need be worked ok.


Quote Originally Posted by SNiiPE_DoGG View Post
I thought the standoffs were pretty easy to work with, and as I have said before plastic standoffs are better from an engineering standpoint than metal ones due to the variable tolerances.
Glad you like 'em

Quote Originally Posted by Caoder View Post
you can keep the screws on the heat sink itself .. just screw the x plate on there too xD .. less small containers looking to get lost...
That would require two extra steps - screwing them in, and unscrewing them again if you want to use the stock heatsink Seriously, that is a good idea. I'll put it all back in the original box for now.