Installation
For the installation part, you will have to keep your AMD backplate, the manufacturer does not provide one. If you don’t have it anymore, a little tour on eBay
should allow you to find one easily.
NH-D12L mounting :
With an Intel motherboard, the first thing to do is to prepare the backplate. Indeed, depending on whether you have an LGA-1700 or not, the distance between the screws will not be the same. So it will be up to you to position them correctly and to maintain them with plastic clips.
Once the backplate is in place on the back of your motherboard, you will need to place plastic washers around the protruding pins. On LGA-1200/LGA-1500, they will be black and blue for LGA-1700. Then, we screw the mounting arms on, we put some thermal paste on the CPU and we fix the NH-D12L.
On an AMD motherboard, the assembly is a bit simpler since there will be no backplate manipulation to perform. Here, you will simply have to remove the mounting arms, position spacers (gray) around the socket and again, screw the mounting arms. After a small application of thermal paste, we proceed to the fixing of the heatsink.
Once in place, we can see that in its basic configuration, with a single fan, the NH-D12L does not interfere with the memory. However, if you add a second fan, three of the four DIMM slots are impacted.
