Thermalright Intel 12th/13th Generation LGA1700 Anti-Bending Buckle,CPU Stress Bending Correction Fixer, Curved Pressure Plate,Fully Fitted and Fixed Without Trace Installation (Black)

I noticed a video on this after researching a replacement cooler for my CPU, also a Thermalright product, the Peerless Assassin. After installing that, I saw videos praising this for getting rid of any CPU bending or other issues from the heavy coolers mounted over the stock CPU retainer.It's an easy install to replace, and comes with the necessary tool, screws and standoffs to mount it, and replacement paste for the CPU. It's the best few bucks you could spend. Just a quick jiggle of the cooler before and after mounting showed me how much more stable it is. That means no CPU bending damage, and better flat surface contact for the cooler to the CPU. That means cooler running and longer life.A 5 star product in build quality, value and ease of installation.

decided to rebuild my computer using a i7-12700k and from what i read and what all my builder friends told me, having this retainer is a must for the long term, as it helps mitigate temperature spikes and evens out the CPU to Cooler contact, allowing for an even heat distribution. Now, I’m not super computer savvy and I’ve only built 3 computers in my lifetime, but if I can install this easily, than anyone can.I placed my CPU on the board first before removing the old retainer, just to insure I wouldn’t damage the board/ pins. I placed the new retainer over the CPU and tightened the screws in a “X” pattern to make sure it seated properly. All screws should only be a little more than finger tight, no need to really torque down on it. The screws do bottom out, so you'll know when you've tightened them enoughI’m running a noctua NH-U12S redux and at idle, it stays around 38c -45c, at load, it hovers around 56c to 65c. This is at stock, no overclocks done. I don’t know what the temps would have been before this retainer but i want to believe that it did make a big difference as I’ve seen others with this same CPU say their temps have been higher. Overall, I’d say it’s well worth picking this up, especially if you are concerned with temps or want to overclock.

Rather easy to install, I removed the motherboard from the case, and removed all my RAM. It might be doable without taking the motherboard out of the case but I didn't want to try it.I run a 12900KS with a less than optimal cooling setup (360mm non-push/pull with Lian Li Uni Fans), while not terrible it gave the CPU less breathing room than a more traditional push/pull config most people have for their i9 CPUs.I did limited testing using Cinebench R23 multi-core for 10 minutes which as far as I know will induce thermal throttling quite easily for 12th and 13th gen i9 CPUs. With the stock ILM and ambient around 22-23C my CPU would immediately thermal throttle and drop to around 4.73 GHz; I have tried this on and off with similar results using the stock ILM.After installing the contact frame and repasting I did see a noticeable improvement. CPU idle temps dropped 3-4C, it would also take time for thermal throttling to occur. The first few Cinebench R23 runs wouldn't even thermal throttle while it would thermal throttle for a few seconds half way through before heat saturation in my AIO had it stay thermal throttling for the duration of the 10 minute run. But across the entire 10 minute run the CPU held an average of 4.9 GHz with it dropping down to around 4.85 GHz near the end and the CPU drawing as high as around 30 more watts with the contact frame installed.I am quite impressed with the contact frame especially given my less than optimal cooling setup for my build and would easily recommend this to anyone running an i7 CPU and strongly recommend this to anyone running an i9 CPU provided they are comfortable with replacing the stock Intel ILM.

I put this in my PC about a year ago when I got my Intel Core i7-13700KF to help the CPU get 100% contact with my AIO, which works great! Temperatures went down I'd say about 3 or 4 degrees. I would change your thermal compound every 6 months to a year, just to keep those temperatures down. Be VERY careful when installing this, best way I found is to either install, or leave the CPU installed when installing the bracket (for obvious reasons) then put the screws in. The screws only go so far, so do NOT over tighten them, I found just going until it stops screwing w/o force was the best option.I 100% think this product is worth it, especially with the cheap price. If you've got ANY LGA 1700 Intel CPU, get it! You won't regret it!

I used this on an Intel Core i7-13700K with an ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 420 for cooling. With the stock frame a few of the cores kept spiking over 100C under load, forcing them to thermally throttle. Since the same cores were overheating every time, it seemed like the CPU wasn't properly mating with the cooler, which is exactly what this product is designed to fix.Installation was pretty simple. I just removed the cooler, swapped the frame, then cleaned and applied fresh thermal paste before reseating the cooler. I did switch to Kryonaut in the process (instead of the ARCTIC paste that came with the cooler) so that may affect my results by a few degrees.Accepting that, I saw a big improvement. Under the same loads as before no CPU core ever spiked over 90C, so there was no thermal throttling and even at full load (with some light overclocking) all the cores are averaging around 70C. That's several degrees cooler on average and the spikes are maybe 15C lower.

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