The NH-L9i will fit Intel sockets and the NH-L9a ... Some Intel and AMD CPUs come with a cooler (known as the "stock" cooler), and they're not necessarily that bad. If you're planning on using ...

If the cooler comes with heatpaste pre-applied, like the stock AMD Ryzen chiller ... so if it doesn’t fit quite right, remove it, and start again. No AMD processor will work for long without ...

If you have an air cooler that uses the stock plastic mounts on an AMD motherboard ... CPU will then definitely be the right way round to fit into the socket. You now just need to gently place ...