Is it possible to install new&effective CPU Cooler with standard mounts on Aspire TC-885 ?

Hi. My Aspire TC-885 has i5 8400 and it hits +84-85 C after 4 minutes of maximum load on CPU. For long work sessions and games it's quite unacceptable and dangerous for longevity of pc components. In addition, existing CPU cooler is very loud too.
As you know this configuration has low-profile and fully aluminium CPU cooler without any tubes and it's connected to CPU socket via 4 poles through motherboard.
So is it possible to install new & effective CPU Cooler with standard mounts for LGA 1151 on Aspire TC-885 ? What about these 4 poles (manually unmountable or not)?

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vitalee

What about these 4 poles (manually demountable or welded to case)?
Does anyone have experience with such task of original cpu cooler replacement on TC-885 to suitable solution with cozy temp and acoustics specs?

billsey

Looking at the motherboard pictures, those four should be screws going into nut embedded in the motherboard. It should be a pretty standard form, so using a different cooler should work, as long as it's not so tall it blocks airflow through the case.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6029997/uploads/editor/c5/dgv9iem3709o.png

vitalee

Thanks Billsey for your help and attached photos of motherboard.
Please, check my rainbow marks over photo with visible small poles with inner carving.
Could you kindly clarify me possibility to remove these small poles, because I need only holes in mobo near socket to mount new CPU Cooler?

vitalee

Image: https://i.ibb.co/jVVtfzb/DSC-0019-01-01-01.jpg

Is it possible to install new & effective CPU Cooler with Mounts-brackets from photo above on my Acer Aspire TC-885 to cut really abnormal temperature mode for work of Intel Core i5 8400(+85 C after 4 minutes of maximum CPU load, 10-15 C to death or degradation of cpu) ?

vitalee

Hmm, so no any technically-precise answers for my recent and easy questions(2 previous posts) to this time?

billsey

Those are pressed in nuts for mounting the CPU cooler. If your cooler require just holes you should be able to press them back out. You will want to remove the MB entirely before pressing them out, and I'd suggest putting a screw in them first so the threads don't get too bunged up, in case you need to reinstall them at some point.

vitalee

Hi Billsey!
My further investigation find out that these poles attached to outer rubber backplate on other side of motherboard. Due agrresive temperature mode inside case of Aspire TC-885, this rubber backplate slightly glued to inner metal backplate of CPU socket. So it's highly recommended to be gentle as possible to detach it.

At the end of the day, it worth to replace original CPU Cooler of TC-885 by retail one with efficiency from heat absorbtion and acoustics sides.
+85 C after 4 minutes of maximum CPU load on original cooler with maximum speed turned into +74-75 C on retail cooler for day of load without generation of noise at all.
Another benefit is heat absorbtion in structure of retail cooler against original cooler with heat distribution at components inside small case (just check form of original, any thermodynamics simulation will show it) . Replacement of cooler led to drop of temperature by 5-9 C for components(graphics card won the highest drop).
By the way, motherboard chipset without any passive cooling solution but holes are present near it. Is it joke? There is no air flow between rear and front of case. Effective management against wisdom of engineers?
I believe that original price rise of Acer Aspire TC-885 by 25-30 USD for normal cooling inside this brandy PC would save a lot of time for productivity users with respect to compute stability and focus on work.
My personal rating for Acer Aspire TC-885 with original cooling is 70/100, because so many doubts for longevity from recent experience. Nice specs for dollar and very bad cooling. With adequate cooling is 90/100. Minus 10 for abcsence of 2 additional memory slots on motherboard, contacts for them exist but unsoldered

billsey

Great! Nice to see those results. On models that are designed to fit into the 'best value for your cash' niche it's not unusual to have a few design choices like this. They likely have a slightly higher end version that uses the same motherboard, but with the other two memory slots populated and a better CPU cooler, perhaps with a case fan and better GPU. They also may have that type for a different locale and just your model for here...

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