cryorig h7 fitting problems

[PotatoSauce]

So today, most of the items I've ordered came in early this week, And when I was trying to fit my new cryorig h7 cooler into my Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 MoBo, it doesn't seem to want to fit. I wonder if anyone else with the same motherboard was able to fit a cryorig h7? Also, I'd appreciate if anyone can give me any recommendations for a good CPU cooler for the motherboard I currently have, my current budget is $40.

[Guest]

Can you take a photo of the fitment issue?

[NQSD]

Why wouldn't it fit? Is there something in the way?

[PotatoSauce]

sorry, it took long I had to reassemble it as I was really pissed off not being able to fit it in. but the problem is that the two crossbars aren't wide enough to go into the screws, I followed the instructions given to me by the manual, and I even watched youtube videos to try and figure out what i did wrong

[PotatoSauce]

the pictures are tilted as I used my phone to take a picture

[NQSD]

You could test if there is something in the way using this:

http://www.cryorig.com/images/tester/h7/h7_socket_amd.pdf 

[NQSD]

Have you tried adjusting them? Are you using the correct mounting for AM3 sockets?

[PotatoSauce]

thanks, I'll try that out tomorrow once I'm out of work.

[PotatoSauce]

yes, I'm using the mounts that they've given me, as I don't have any other mounts since I've been using the stock cooler for a long time.

 

[NQSD]

1 minute ago, PotatoSauce said:

yes, I'm using the mounts that they've given me, as I don't have any other mounts since I've been using the stock cooler for a long time.

 

What about the nuts and bolts?

[PotatoSauce]

yep, I used everything given to me from the package.

[NQSD]

Then there shouldn't be much of a problem, unless there is something on the motherboard interfering with the cooler.

[PotatoSauce]

I really don't know why it isn't fitting, to be honest. I bought the cryorig h7 because supposedly PcPartPicker said it was 'compatible.' also I wasn't able to find a topic on the use of cryorig h7 on my MoBo, so I went on and bought it. But I should have picked the cooler master hyper 212 Evo since everyone with the same MoBo as me was using that.

[asand1]

You have the bracket on the cooler wrong. The "arms " should be hugging the heatpipes.

[asand1]

Like this.

[PotatoSauce]

19 hours ago, asand1 said:

Like this.

yea, another forum has helped me already so I fixed it right away. But thanks for the help!