Installation
The installation isn’t as pleasant as the other ISGC coolers mainly because of having to install the fan. It seems that Thermaltake tried to cut on packaging space giving the end user the pain of installing two crappy clips. If you’ve ever had to attach a fan to a heatsink with these clips, you know exactly what I’m talking about. While these clips do hold the fan tight to the heatsink, they’re still a big pain to install.
After you’ve aligned the fan, attached the clips you can start attaching the support brackets. We used the brackets for the LGA 775 installation. They simply attach with four small screws to the base, but before installing you need to make sure to install the four black rubber washers to the screws on the support brackets.
Now is the time to apply your thermal grease included with the ISGC-400. Then simply align up the four screws to the holes on the motherboard. It really doesn’t matter which way the cooler is aligned, just as long as it’s not hitting anything on your motherboard or will interfere with anything on your case. Once you’ve confirmed everything will work out, flip the motherboard over, with the cooler attached, and place the four plastic washers and four nuts over the screws to secure the cooler to the motherboard.
Once you’ve got that completed you can then go ahead and install your motherboard back into your case. Since the ISGC-400 has a horizontal heatsink design you shouldn’t have any major problems with it interfering with your case.
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