Xigmatek SD1283 Dark Knight Night Hawk Edition CPU Cooler

When installing this unit, you get several brackets supplied for different socket types, that utilize the crossbar. It is a brushed aluminum bar, tapped at each end to allow for the screws to pass through and the nuts to be attached on top. Xigmatek is silk screened on the bar, completing the branding on the package. Free advertising on the windowed case, or the photographed build! Specific instruction on all the different socket types are provided. 

Here is major warning. Depending upon the location of your CPU socket in relation to your memory sockets, you may have interference if you use tall memory with heat sinks attached. Normal/unfinned DIMM’s should be ok as well as low profile DIMM’s. As you can see from the pictures below, if all of my sockets were populated with the same memory, I would not be able to use this heat sink… or I would have to remove a bank of memory. The CPU fins cross over the top of the last socket. No amount of fan adjustment is going to change that physical limitation. I’m using a Rampage III motherboard for reference. You might be asking, “Why not orient the heat sink shifted 90 degrees?”. Thar would then throw off the thermal properties of the heat pipes. In that orientation, the top pipes would be saturated, while the bottom pipes left unused. So, consider the location of your memory to your CPU socket. If you have high performance memory, and it has a “cooling solution” on the outside, you may need to rethink your memory, or this purchase, if you have a memory slot in use next to the CPU socket.