No Northbidge cooling !

We just cleaned the CPU from all remaining dirt, sticky thermal paste ect. It's important so that the CPU can dissolve heat evenly and rapidly over the entire surface. Once removed apply a little thermal compound (delivered with this kit).

Not too much. Just enough to cover the top a little. Here's a tip: squeeze two drops onto the middle of the CPU and take a thin plastic bread bag to smear it all over the CPU. The result will be very equal smeared thermal paste all over the CPU.

Over the metal guides we place the waterblock. The next step is to place 4 springs over the guides, and then secure the cooler with thumbscrews. Really easy stuff as it either fits, or if you done something completely wrong, doesn't.
The thumbscrews, do not screw them tight all the way down. When you feel tensions on the springs, turn it about 6 more times and it's secure.

That is all there is to it ... When you look at the pipes you'll notice three of them. The middle one is the inward flow. It is basically in the middle because it is aimed at the core of the silicon. Cold water goes straight for the core. The two pipes on the outside are responsible for removing the heated water, we connect these two to a supplied Y-Fitting with the help of tubing.

Oh bummer,  no watercooled Northbridge cooling for us.

The mainboard you are looking at is a reference design from Intel itself. No holes and that passive cooling block on top of the chip has been melded/soldiered onto the mainboard. There is no way we can remove it. Common and standard mainboards will be compatible though. Just there are a few out there that don't and although I never anticipated that, we can't use the Northbridge block. We'll put it to use on another mainboard at some point. Too bad though.