If there was a little sticker that said 'mechBgon inside' - I'd put it on my system. He helped me through things quite a bit. I'd say stuff like check ot make sure the cords are plugged into the back of your monitor secure, but I'm guessing it's not something that simple..
-Jen
When you took the motherboard out and tried running it - did you have it resting against any metal or electricity-conductive material? Those little threader devices keep the motherboard from touching the case - and are quite important. When you get your motherboard - you will have to look at...
For the price of the heat sink you have listed in that list - you could (I think) get one with much better performance. If you read about in the cases and cooling section, you'll see a lot of people who say good things about ThermalRight's XP-90 or XP-120 (Not to be confused with the company...
The law is the law, The end.
If you go one mile over the speed limit - you accept the risks and consequences of willfully choosing to ignore a law that many people do try to abide by. Places don't grow legs and disappear - it will be there when you get there - and if you allocate enough time...
No no - I'm 99% sure the fan is fine. See, the XP 120 mounts the fan atop the heat sink in a really weird way. I'm a fan of the 'screw in/washers/nuts' method myself - but the XP 120 has to long and thin wire bars that you pull up on 2 sides of the heat sink. They pull up and over, and the...
Ok..anyone who has experience with the XP -120 may know that the kit comes with two lines of silicon(?) that you lay atop of the heat sink before placing the 120 mm fan on top of it. This reduces vibration.
So when I installed my heatsink, I put the sticky-bar silicone lines on the heat sink...
If you're talking about the weird dry greyish stuff, or sometimes gooey/greasy greyish stuff - it's a paste that is necessary to reapply every time you mess with the heat sink and CPU. Clean it off of the heat sink and cpu with the highest percentage of rubbing alcohol that you can find - and...
Uhhh - and where in my entry did I say BB is going out of business? I dont think you really read what I was saying - or at least, you misunderstood what I was saying.
I said Businesses without customers will quickly go out of business. I never said Best Buy doesn't have customers. *IF*...
It's called customer service, fisher. I don't think he's asking for too much for a little bit of customer service. Telling someone to stop whining, etc etc and to 'tough it out' and deal with it isn't very good business. Businesses without customers will quickly go out of business. I can...
Best Buy is a ultra-greedy corp that cares about money beyond anything else, or so my experiences have taught me.
I bought a Vaio laptop from them in February of 2001. They started pitching the 'extended best buy warranty' to me, saying how Sony only covers this and that, how it doesn't...
The retail CPu with included fan and heat sink comes with a pre-applied layer of thermal/grease/stickystuff that when the heat sink is applied to the back of the cpu - seals all the little niches so there is better thermal transfer.
If you are buying an aftermarket fan and/or heat sink - get...
I had to use some washers and nuts to go with the screws to keep the heat sink in place since the backboard for the motherboard isn't 'screw in' compatible. I'm not sure if I'd recommend people do what I tried - but I got it to work for me (Only coz we have a huge collection of rogue...
Motherboard monitor works on some new motherboards. My FX-53 with Gigabyte K8NSNXP 939 motherboard reads the CPU temperature just fine. There's a lot of sensors that are funky, but the main (red) readout in my taskbar works pretty darn good on keeping temperature readouts accurate. Might need...
I just hate to see someone's thread turned into what essentially (from my perspective) equates to personal opinion. I've seen these benchmark test thingies - and often it's so close between the two companies. It's not like one company is going to junk yards and scrapping for parts and hence...
'Regardless of what your told, you went with teh winnah - Intel! Then #1 chip company in the world, and for good reason. Dont regret not being a second class pc user and going with the number two company out there. '
Felix - I respect your choice to choose Intel over AMD. I've had both Intel...
Sure! Got a picture of the heat sink in the motherboard. Sorry it took so long to get a picture to you - but I spend Halloween doing the front yard up for all the little kids in the neighborhood. Xp-120 picture here:
http://img88.exs.cx/my.php?loc...mage=xp120bigfella.jpg
Sorry about the...
Thanks guys - I thought it was pretty crafty to just find some washers and nuts instead of just waiting to order a backplate. I suppose I'll get a backplate eventually - but not soon - went through way too much work getting the motherboard back in, and I want to enjoy it for awhile. It seems...
Computer information pertaining to the install
Athlon FX-53
Gigabyte's K8NSNXP=939
Ram - 2 sticks of 3200
Not going to get into too much detail but the above should tell the important stuff regarding fitting the heat sink for my system.
To start - Gigabyte's stock retainer mount for...
It's possible to bend a pin back into place..but we're talking about the CPU core here. If it was something else i'd say go for it and try but I mean..something as sensitive and critical as the CPU - hard to say if there's hidden damage from whatever happened. Yer much better off getting a...
Not quite sure - don't have a lot of knowledge on fans in the sense of having used a lot. I do know that the 120's can push more air with less noise as a result, while smaller fans (like stock heat sink fans) have to spin faster to push the same amount due to being smaller, and hence probably a...
http://heatsinkfactory.com/cgi...l&catalogno=HS-004
The 120mm 103 output panaflo fan seems like a really nice package to go with it - and they include an option to order it right along with the heat sink. (Don't forget the 3 or 4 pin power connection tail - need to check that too - and...
I think the controller for the Zalman fan has 2 modes - 'Quiet' and 'Normal' - Ie Quiet = low and Normal = high
So what they're saying is use the 'normal' fan mode if you plan on overclocking since the components will need the extra air pull. If you don't plan on doing overclocking, then you...
First link shows an empty wish list..
The case? Well, that's up to you. The design doesn't do much for me - but you're getting it for you, not me =D
It doesn't seem to state how many running fans are in the case - so you might want to find out. It will be a bit
loud if there's a lot, or...
PCI bus or AGP controller? Hrm..Donno if it would help - but have you tried removing all but the main backbone required to run the system (Video card, ram, etc) and see how it runs then? If it runs okay, you can try putting things in one at a time and see if any one thing gives you trouble...
A lot o folks will recommend an Antec brand power supply. I'll probably be upgrading to Antec before the year is over. I don't plan on trying to run a current video card until that is taken care of. *G*
-Jen
Some programs like current versions of WinAmp will let you see streaming feeds of tv shows. It's hard to find a spot/opening (Since the feeds are limited bandwidth, hosts usually allow 10-30 people on each feed maximum, or something). I've seen Family Guy, Futurama, etc - this way.
To...
I have and use the K8NSNXP-939 motherboard from Gigabyte. I've ordered the XP-120 and I'm waiting for it to arrive - and I'm not too worried about the response that Thermalright gave..
The plastic backplate on the backside of the motherboard that holds the stock sink in place DOES use...
I'm waiting on the XP -120 cooler to try in my FX-53. As far as mobo go - I don't know if the socket 939 Gigabyte K8NSNXP supports the FX-55 - prolly wouldn't be too hard to find out? I haven't had much trouble with mine, thus far. Also - something that might further make you think twice...
Yikes! I really don't have a preference of one 'brand' over another. I try to go with what will work and make me happy. I'm not quite sure why I went with the Gigabyte board out of the three Nforce 3 boards that were available for my set up - One of which was the MSI board..but I'm glad that...
Oh wow, hey! Thanks a bunch. Found it there at http://heatsinkfactory.com/cgi...l&catalogno=HS-004
Do y'think the panaflo fans they recommend to go with it is enough of a fan for cooling? My case is loud enough(55-60 db or so) - and I'm looking
for cooling over quiet since I run data...
Seriously. It gets kind of old. I'm new to the forums and seeing the same people post the 'Oh your X or Y problem is because you don't have Z brand computer' is making my time here less fun. A machine is a machine. Companies are different - but they have the same goal - to make $$. That's...
Most of the 'well known' places like newegg, zipzoomfly, etc doesn't seem to have the Thermalright XP 120 in stock. My motherboard is set in a way that I can actually use this HS - I just can't seem to find it anywhere. I've seen a couple web pages that carry it - but I don't have a lot of...
It's extremely important to put a thermal paste on the head spreader - the flat metal surface that the bottom of the Zalman will push against. Did you put any thermal material between the CPU and the Zalman heat sink? If not - that is a major 'Eek!' - something you don't want to do. A lot of...
Thanks for the feedback guys. Yeah, the stock Amd cooler fan ran at higher rpm, I think. I agree that this Zalman would probably be a great candidate if I returned it and got one without a messed up bottom - but the thing is - my case has 2 rear fans, 1 top, 1 front intake and 1 120 side fan...
Another thought. I noticed that the package I bought (Fry's electronics) was a returned model. For some reason - it was returned to the store. There was a sticker on the back stating as such that I didn't notice until later this evening. While I was looking at the bottom surface of the heat...
Well - The controller is set to maximum..getting rpm's of around 2250-2350 or so - which I guess is within specs of the fan at max. I realize it's not one of the most powerful fans - but it oughta be getting more.. I mean it's much bigger then the older stock fan. Pretty sure it's not the...
Okay - took the fan/sink off and cleaned off the stuff and this time placed a small dab of Arctic 5 right square on the moddle of the cpu. Under the seti program I'm still getting a 47-48C readout
I mean, I guess that's not too bad for a load temp, but it seems sort of disheartening when I...
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