Swiftech MC462-BA Socket A Arived this morning, installed, crap temps ?

[Egg]

I installed the hsf this morning not with the greatist of ease, the nylon nuts they provided i found were complete rubbish and couldnt give me enough clamping pressure to get my temps down, i ended up nackering all the threads on all of the nuts. So i got some metal motherboard spacers (the ones that lift ur mobo from ur chassis) and i used them instead of the nylon nuts, however i only had 2 of them, so im still using 2 nylon nuts. I applied a good layer of as2 as the site shows, booted up, mbm says 47 degress C idle, ambient of 31 Dergrees C - its a 1.2ghz axia and im under clocked at 1122 Mhz. Ive re mounted several times. Im also using a cooler guys shim. Did any one else have problem with the nylon nuts and clamping pressure? And if you have a Swiftech MC462-BA Socket A then post me ur temps pls :)

[!-=sky=-!]

first of all

the shim is holding your temp around a few C

and.......what is your room temp/

that reallly differs everything a lot

[Egg]

room temp is from about 30 - 35 degrees C

[phiber]

umm yeah the Swifty has the worst nute they are plastic and loosen themselves everyweek and i could see because my temps would go to like 60C so i would tighten and they would go down then i got a glaciator

[mEKbOY]

LOL...you went out and bought another gldaiator. This problem with the mounting mechanism for the 4 hole has been coming up quite frequently with the maze2 waterblock mostly. Swiftech probably has the best. When i had my swiftech i just made sure to tighten them realy well and my temps were comparable to my water rig. If you want to fix this all together just goto home depot and buy about $2 worth of metal bolts, nuts, and screws. I did that for my maze waterblock and it lowered temps 2c. You surely have that swiftech mounted wrong. take everything apart and do it again very carefully makeing sure everything is real tight to the motherboard..Also get rid of the shim its proably ruining your contact with the cpu which happened to me and fried a athlon.

[SleepyKat]

I had poor temp reading when I replace my cool master with the swiftech. The problem it turned out was not the nylon nut. You may want to place additional washers in the spring to increase the spring pressure. I have an additional 3 washer per post and that fixed the problem and provided me with better numbers. ....and unfortunately when you remove the bolt , you loose the nylon nuts....


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