- Apr 19, 2013
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The other day I was swapping out the video card in my wife's PC and cleaning out all the dust. She usually gets the old parts from my PC's, and that day she was thrilled to be upgrading from a GT 210 to a 7770.
Wait, no she wasn't. I'm the computer geek, she just wants it to work. She was rather irritated with me that I had taken her computer apart.
She's got a cheap OEM Asus tower that we picked up a couple years ago from Best Buy on sale. Socket AM3, a dual core 2.8 Ghz Athlon II in it. The stock heatsink was filthy with dust, started cleaning it off. Then inspiration hit. :hmm: Hmmmm, this is socket AM3. My PC is socket AM3+. When I built mine, I slapped on a closed loop water cooler on the 8320 from the get go. I never used the factory cooler. :sneaky:
A few minutes of digging in the closet, and I have this:
Still has the thermal compound from AMD on it, plastic cover over it, never been used. Designed to sink heat from the blowtorch, I mean processor, that is Bulldozer and Piledriver, it should have no problem with this budget dual core.
Wife is doing this: and this: D: right about now, because I'm busting out a screwdriver, her processor and heatsink are on the table next to the computer and I am laughing maniacally. :sneaky:
Clean off the old goop, replace the heatsink brackets with the proper ones, throw everything back together, admire the new shiny, then hook it all back up.
The damn dual core now idles on the desktop at ambient temperature (72*F) and doesn't even hit 80*F while she's playing her games.
Oh, and she still isn't impressed. With the heatsink or the GPU. But I had fun. :thumbsup:
Wait, no she wasn't. I'm the computer geek, she just wants it to work. She was rather irritated with me that I had taken her computer apart.
She's got a cheap OEM Asus tower that we picked up a couple years ago from Best Buy on sale. Socket AM3, a dual core 2.8 Ghz Athlon II in it. The stock heatsink was filthy with dust, started cleaning it off. Then inspiration hit. :hmm: Hmmmm, this is socket AM3. My PC is socket AM3+. When I built mine, I slapped on a closed loop water cooler on the 8320 from the get go. I never used the factory cooler. :sneaky:
A few minutes of digging in the closet, and I have this:
Still has the thermal compound from AMD on it, plastic cover over it, never been used. Designed to sink heat from the blowtorch, I mean processor, that is Bulldozer and Piledriver, it should have no problem with this budget dual core.
Wife is doing this: and this: D: right about now, because I'm busting out a screwdriver, her processor and heatsink are on the table next to the computer and I am laughing maniacally. :sneaky:
Clean off the old goop, replace the heatsink brackets with the proper ones, throw everything back together, admire the new shiny, then hook it all back up.
The damn dual core now idles on the desktop at ambient temperature (72*F) and doesn't even hit 80*F while she's playing her games.
Oh, and she still isn't impressed. With the heatsink or the GPU. But I had fun. :thumbsup: