When to mount?

[TheLuke]

So, I will be building my first PC and I watched quite a lot of videos, I was wondering when should I mount my CPU cooler, before I install the MOBO or after, because I will get a Hyper212x and that is quite a tall and heavy cooler?

[W-L]

Just now, TheLuke said:

So, I will be building my first PC and I watched quite a lot of videos, I was wondering when should I mount my CPU cooler, before I install the MOBO or after, because I will get a Hyper212x and that is quite a tall and heavy cooler?

Usually installing it outside of the case is easier and you just need to place the entire board and cooler into the case at once. 

[Aurora906]

Whichever you prefer, might be easier to install it before you install the motherboard imo.

[TheLuke]

Just now, W-L said:

Usually installing it outside of the case is easier and you just need to place the entire board and cooler into the case at once. 

Ok, thanks for the help!

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

I believe that cooler has a backplate bracket. If your case has no cutout for one, then you should install the cooler onto the motherboard before putting the motherboard in the case. However, it might be better to just install it before mounting the motherboard in the case anyway since you'll have all the room to work with.

[Maxinfamily]

Install everything outside your case first. You can use your stockfan if you dont want to use your thermal compound. You can also use no fan at all, the system will protect Itself incase of overheating and if It reaches critical temps, It will shutdown automatically.

 

Then It depends on the back plate that your fan uses, but as a suggestion, on behalf of commodity, always mount It outside the case. Depending on the case you can mount It with the mobo screwed in the case, but even then It only makes more difficult to mount It. So always mount It outside the case by default.

[LogicalDrm]

Outside. And if you can find second pair of hands, even better. 212 has one of most annoying mounting systems I know.