Aurora R4 CPU Cooler Upgrade, Asetek ThreadRipper XL (TFGHM)

I bagged a pair of double-wide 120x48mm Area-51 AMD Threadripper Asetek Liquid CPU Coolers, $40ea, $85 w/tax shipped/used/eBay, part# TFGHM (also see HR6V4), Dell list price for a new one is about $210. My used cheapies arrived today in great shape, both were tested 1st & work ... Cooler #1 is installed, cooler #2 will be held back as a known-good spare

The soxket TR4 retention ring needed to be swapped off for my Intel siocket 2011 ring > back x4 cap-screws out > lift lid > back x1 screw out > twist TR4 ring off > install 2011 ring & do reverse for reassembly

Above, TR4 ring is off, 2011 ring is on. Install is belowThe Crucial 1866 memory sticks are too tall to allow dual-25mm fans in push-pull ... I have top 100mmx12mm fans blowing cool outside air down & in, so a solo 25mm Everflow PWM fan is exhausting out (I may let the rad & fan trade places later on) Because the pump motor uses a 3-wire design housed in a 3+1 / 4pin fan connector, I hand-made it a Mind-Meld cooling adaptor, similar to below ... A forum member contacted me earlier this week & above is the cooling adaptor I made to help install Corsair H80i GT/V2. My Alien gets a 3+1 / 4pin fan connector w/ the correct Black Molex SL 7pin connector-end that plugs back into the top light strip 7pin (where it's supposed to connect at) so that CmndCntr can monitor the pump for a run/fail status as is normal

The motor harness is about 8inches = just long enough that it could've plugged directly into the 7pin up there; I could have cut the fan pins off of the motor harness & applied MolexSL terminals & put a 7pin directly on it & plugged in without an adaptor, but decided not to

This TFGHM TRip cooler is a GenV or GenVI design & has replaced my 120x49mm Asetek 570LC GenIV ... I held them next to each other & they're the same width; the literature on the A-51 sales page said the TRip cooler is 48mm wide, it might be, but it looked like the same 49mm width as the 570LC. I've used Gelid GC Extreme thermal paste between the Intel 4930k & cooler cold-plate, the temps are about the same as the prior 570LC ... not too shabby ... 

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Tip for Aftermarket (non-original) Cooling > any 120mm aftermarket cooler can of course plug into an open fan header at the top light strip (such as CPU_Fan header) & work normal (your rad-fan plugs into Sys_Fan header) ... if so, you then ignore the CmndCntr 'pump failed' widget & disable the fan error warning in the Bios (find & disable 'Wait For F1' in the Bios) ...