Before you pop the Radiator Zen on your CPU, take a gander at you motherboard and make sure there is enough space around the socket to accomodate the cooler. This cooler is actually fairly large due to its plastic shroud. I guess if you have enough room to accomodate a large Swiftech socket cooler, then there's a good chance you will be able to install the Radiator Zen. As for my Soyo DRAGON+, I had to slightly push the nearby capacitors aside. Here's a diagram explaining how much space would be required.

Being the smartass that I am, I casually just glance over the manual's instructions on installation and attempted to install the cooler. BIG MISTAKE! I can't even stress enough how important it is to: 1- Read the manual, 2- watch the quicktime movie, and 3- look at the flash animation. Thanks to my act of stupidity, I've rubbed off a bit of the edge of my Athlon TBird's core. STUDY THE DOCUMENTATION RELIGIOUSLY! In fact, for those who actually have dead Athlons laying around, use them as guinea pigs until you are accustomed to the Radiator Zen's clips.

After I restudied the instructions, I was ready to give the Radiator Zen another shot. Installation was a bit awkward. It involved catching one of the 2 plastic clips on the socket, sliding the cooler's heat spreader into place, and then CAREFULLY snapping the other clip in place. Believe me, this is not as easy as it sounds. Now that the cooler has been installed with no further injury to the processor, we can finally move on to the actual testing.