Installation

Here is my AMD 3000 Winchester all cleaned up and ready to have the arctic cooler fitted.

Installation involves hooking 2 arms onto 2 edges on the stock AMD retention bracket then tightening the screws holding them to achieve good contact between the heatsink base and the CPU. This was done with ease, nothing like the power battle when installing the XP-90 for example.

Firstly a point noted while installing. When installing the cooler I noticed how close the cooler is to the memory slots on my board. I had to take out the memory to be able to get the cooler into the right place to hook the arms onto the bracket. This may be a problem to people. Also once installed the heatsink comes quite close to the modules. This way be worrying or may even be beneficial as it might generate air flow past the memory modules helping with their cooling.