I decided to take out my liquid cooler and put back in my air cooler to see if it...

[Harrison Scott Burd]

I decided to take out my liquid cooler and put back in my air cooler to see if it works. I now have a problem where the stock cooler slides right off the CPU. In the picture, you may be able to see the four holes around the CPU. They had black plastic pieces there before I installed the liquid cooler. I don’t have those plastic pieces with me now.

What can I do?

 

[Neil Towson]

find the old pieces or buy it

 

[Neil Towson]

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[Manuel Fredrick Thodos]

Or just put the liquid cooler back on.

 

[James French]

Zip ties

 

[Kevin James Contratto]

i got the plastic peices you need

 

[Marcus Dean Adams]

Zip ties,

 

[Gerald Hidalgo]

i hope you realize that once that aircooler drops to your gpu, the gpu might take some damage and your ram if you're unlucky, so i suggest you to buy a new motherboard (either 2ndhand).

 

[Erik DePriest]

oh man .. im typically not one to talk shit but that cooler aint going to stay in place by some sort of magic bro .. you need the original backplate and mount for that air cooler

 

[Eric Mattson]

put the water cooler back on lol

 

[Kendy Tercy]

RIP Trop lourd bruh

 

[Calvin DiBartolo]

buy a new mounting plate?

 

[Calvin DiBartolo]

assuming AM2/AM3 here:

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If it's AM4 you might be able to find something similar

 

[Callum Hardwick]

yeah yo need the black pieces to put it on, i'm surprised you didn't keep them but it should be cheap enough to replace

 

[Alex Arriaga]

Easy. You buy the bracket.

 

[Stephen Steinlein]

How did you not realize what would happen next, after you put the air cooler on the CPU? How did you not look and see it was going to slide off without any retention to hold it in place?

Pick up a replacement bracket.