Dark Rock 3 on Sabertooth 990FX - am I missing something??

[Major Eazy]

I have a Sabretooth 990FX motherboard still in box. I am still buying parts and parts and part to collect, getting it all ready for building my own computer.

At the moment, I am looking into buying a CPU cooler for my AMD FX series CPU.

I'm just interested in the Be Quiet Dark Rock 3 or the Dark Rock Pro 3 CPU cooler. I have not make a decision to put it on my shopping list yet, just looking and thinking about it.

I'm just checking for clearance, spaces around, checking if it will fit or not, and so on. I noticed something.

According to the Dark Rock PDF manual, according to those YouTube video clips, according to various photos and pictures I see, it needs to be screwed to the motherboard.

But my Sabertooth 990FX don't seems to have any holes for it. It do have this kind of housing on both sides of the CPU socket, ready for a normal heatsink and fan unit to be clipped on. Am I missing something?

There seems to be nothing on Google to suggest what to do before installing according to manual, YouTube videos, etc.

Am I supposed to unscrew the housing unit on sides of the socket (for AMD's own heatsink and fan), take it off, and bingo, I have the screw holes for the Dark Rock cooler???

 

[redsnappa]

I had a quick look at the installation manual for the Quiet Dark Rock 3 and it is clear and concise.
You will have to remove the heat sink bracket & motherboard and the back plate that are on your current motherboard and replace it with the mounting kit that comes with your chosen heat sink\fan.
Not sure what case you are using but if you are contemplating this amount of serious work on your pc would not a sealed liquid cooling cooler be better bet?, You will have lower temperatures control and you will not need to worry about space to fit your RAM modules.

 

[Major Eazy]

I had a quick look at the installation manual for the Quiet Dark Rock 3 and it is clear and concise.
You will have to remove the heat sink bracket & motherboard and the back plate that are on your current motherboard and replace it with the mounting kit that comes with your chosen heat sink\fan.
Not sure what case you are using but if you are contemplating this amount of serious work on your pc would not a sealed liquid cooling cooler be better bet?, You will have lower temperatures control and you will not need to worry about space to fit your RAM modules.

I may have to remove a back plate on the back of the Sabertooth motherboard?? Aw, well guess I've got more work to do when the time comes. Many thanks.