anamaroth

In my case the issue wasn't the length of the screws, but their thickness. Corsair has supplied screws with the wrong diameter. Check if AMD Pins that came with your cooling system can be screwed in with ease. If they can be: go to your local hardware store and buy all the other screws (short case mount screws and long fan mount screws) with the same diameter and they should go in easily. But yeah, supplying wrong screws is completely unacceptable for such an expensive cooling system

Another day, another issue with a corsair product; Bought K70 Lux, RGB wont light up at all, even after ICUE setup. ICUE detects the keyboard, and says it needs an update, however pressing the update button immediately produces an error "Failure to check for firmware update". I've tried plugging it in different USB ports, no positive results. Edit: I should probably add that 3 led indicators near the multimedia keys keep blinking. No idea what that means. Edit2: doing the soft reset as described here: solved the issue

I bought some screws from the local hardware store, which are of the same thickness as the Amd pin, and have successfully installed the cooling system with them. These hardware-store-screws also came with nuts, which I used to test all the came-with-the-cooler-screws, and all the came-with-the-cooler-screws are too big for the nuts. I am just disappointed I had to spend extra 7 EUR (and a lot of weekend time) to install a 155 EUR cooling system.

Here's what I found: the "AMD Screw clip" can be screwed into the radiator with ease. And it seems to be 1mm thinner in diameter than the screws that came with the radiator. Added 3 more pics at the end: https://imgur.com/a/oKLJ1al Guess they put the wrong screws in the package. Can I demand the proper screws from Corsair? thanks for the help, c-attack

https://imgur.com/a/oKLJ1al Some more pics. All the screws on the pictures are either fan screws or radiator screws that came with the cooling system. They are screwed in as far as I could screw them, which is about half a rotation. Trying to apply more force makes the screwdriver pop out of the socket on the screw's head.

Found some other people discussing the topic here: The problem is that they still suggest to just apply an amount of force that "doesn't feel right", which I won't do (because im afraid of damaging the threads) until I get some confirmation from this forum (or the ticket that I have submitted).

https://imgur.com/a/QIJwiZZ here's a picture. This is the long screw came with the cooler. It does not go in any further. Same situation for the shorter screws for the radiator mounting. Are the threads on the radiator defective?

I have H100i RGB PLATINUM SE. Screws on both sides of the radiator do not go in their respective sockets, because they are blocked by the actual radiator grid on the other side of the screw holes. I have found a few people discussing this issue on 3rd party websites (https://pcpartpicker.com/forums/topic/321890-h100i-supplied-screws-too-long) and it seems that I am supposed to just force the screws in, deforming the radiator (which I understand does not impact its performance), however, when i tried to do this it seemed like I needed a lot of force to do this, which made me concerned for the structural integrity of the screws and the threads. So what should I do? Edit: I just realized that the screws barely go in the holes at all. Maybe half a rotation, which means the issue is with the threads in the radiator. Edit2: all the pics: https://imgur.com/a/oKLJ1al Edit3: (At a closer inspection it really looke like there's too much paint on the radiator, which is preventing the screws from going in) - incorrect Edit4: It seems they put the wrong screws in the package. AMD screw clips can be screwed in with ease, and they are about 1mm thinner than all the other screws in the package.