Originally posted by: kirbymixmasta
"Mine is one of the ones that didn't come with a mounting bracket or anything."
=.= I believe they all come with brackets and nipples. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
The one i installed on a ECS/AMD board did not come with a mounting bracket. i used the stock one. Care must be takien so the mounting screws are not cross threaded in the golden nipples, they are aluminum and fragile.
The ECS board was very crowded and i had to shave the area of the fins right above the ram
as it touched by about .7mm. Had i missed this the HSF would have not been on the CPU.
Use a small mirror and flashlight, take a very close look around the lower fin area. You should be able to do this with everything in place. A woman's compact mirror is about right for the job. Shine the light beam on the mirror to place the light where needed and the image in the mirror will be as clear as day.
When the HSF is lowered onto the CPU it should be turned 1 or 2 degrees both ways to be sure its seated before being fully tightened.
Galvanized
Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
As one Pole to another, i have played with three CPUs. Two Intel that were not flat, they were a little high at center and one AMD Athlon 3200 that was dead flat. The two Zalman 7000 i've mounted were very flat and true. If you go to Artic Silver's web page they give very explicite instuctions on the use of thier products. I'm sure they will back me up on the fact that you used way too much. A skin of no more than .002" is all that is needed. That pic looks like your tiling a bathroom. Your not laying tile buddy, just a thin skin. That little syringe of AS5 is good for 15+ HSF installs. Use a credit card or a new single edge razor blade that feels perfect to the touch(no scratches).
Galvanized
Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
As one Pole to another, i have played with three CPUs. Two Intel that were not flat, they were a little high at center and one AMD Athlon 3200 that was dead flat. The two Zalman 7000 i've mounted were very flat and true. If you go to Artic Silver's web page they give very explicite instuctions on the use of thier products. I'm sure they will back me up on the fact that you used way too much. A skin of no more than .002" is all that is needed. That pic looks like your tiling a bathroom. Your not laying tile buddy, just a thin skin. That little syringe of AS5 is good for 15+ HSF installs. Use a credit card or a new single edge razor blade that feels perfect to the touch(no scratches).
Galvanized
Originally posted by: Pollock
Yeah, I know that too much paste isn't good either. Well I cleaned it off and reapplied it, and so far I'm stable, but the highest temp I got to at stock while running 3DMark05 was ~64C, I think. I did notice one thing though. The alarm on Corecenter went off because the CPU fan was spinning at ~700RPM! Right now it's spinning at about 1400RPM instead of 2500RPM like it should be. I also tried removing the Fanmate 1, but the fan still seems to spin slow sometimes. Maybe I should lubricate it?