Gelid Slim Hero Low Profile CPU Cooler Review

Here you can see all the mounting accessories. We have four screws for mounting the brackets, four screws for mounting the cooler, four nuts for attaching the screws to the cooler, four nuts for attaching the cooler to the motherboard, 8 motherboard spaces (4 for each side of the motherboard mounting holes), four spacers for the AMD platform, some GC-2 thermal paste, AMD mounting brackets, Intel mounting brackets and a Gelid sticker.

This is what the Slim Hero looks like with the Intel mounting brackets and screws fitted.

Here you can see the back of the motherboard with the cooler fitted, it requires four nuts to be screwed in firmly and no backplate is required.

From the top you can see the Gelid Slim Hero blocks one RAM slot out of 3 so you will need low profile RAM to populate all four RAM slots on LGA 1155. On mini-ITX and Micro-ATX motherboards it would block two RAM slots as there is less spacing between the RAM and CPU socket area on these.

Here you can see the RAM clearance a little closer. It is a very tight fit indeed.