Insulating LGA775

[Xris]

Every guide I've read for insulating while installing a pelt has been for another socket. The LGA775 has a cage on the socket. If I put neoprene around the cage there would be open spaces.

How are you guys insulating these sockets?

[mikeguava]

Every guide I've read for insulating while installing a pelt has been for another socket. The LGA775 has a cage on the socket. If I put neoprene around the cage there would be open spaces.

How are you guys insulating these sockets?

you are doing much better than I did - asking before doing....I put dialectric grease al over my LGA socket and after running for about 3 hours the system crashed and nothing is working anymore...argh.
From this experince I would say only insulate it from the outside not inside...get some 3M scotch seal 2229 and wrap it around - than put some neoprene around it.
You can remoce the socket door but that's about it.

[Ross]

I've had no problems at all. Insulate around the outside and fill the space between the foam/socket with dielectric grease up to the top of the socket. Also, fill the middle of the socket inside with DEG prior to installing the proc and put some insulation on the back of the mobo and you should be good to go.

I used a brush-on conformal coating on any obvious exposed connections around the socket (the "shiny" areas) and on back of the mobo, but I really don't think it was even necessary.

http://home.austin.rr.com/rossmisc/pelt_insulation.jpg

Follow Swifty's instructions (http://www.swiftnets.com/products/installationguide_MCW5002-775T.pdf) like I did and you shouldn't have any problems...

[mikeguava]

nice job you did there - wish I would have been a bit smarter...argh

[Ross]

Thanks. I might have been a little over-cautious (is there such a thing?) with that being my first pelt install and everything. I just swapped from that P5AD2-E to a P5WD2 and am contemplating installing the pelt without coating the board and just using the foam/DEG while I wait for vapo to arrive :D

[mikeguava]

actually the board came back to live- so the insulation inside probably does not create a problem. I jumped to wrong conclusions after reading a very similar experience fomr another user