Vapochill and mounting

[DotDKay]

Hi
I have bought a vapochill system, and I am very excited to get it up running. But I have seen several ppl crushed there athlon cores. And basically I am not interested in crushing my new Athlonxp 1800+ :)

So can someone come with some good tips to how I avoid crushing that core?

[The Overclocker]

welcome to the forums

i belive koolance have a very nice hold down device that makes a crack noise when tightened enough.

but to minimise the chances or the core cracking get a shim, they go around the processor die to stop the heatsink/waterblock from rocking, i have used a tweakmonster shim and think it is very good, any non copper shim will be fine

[Yodums]

To my knowledge their core's corner are being chipped when mounting so best to get a shim and just use it when mounting it because it won't affect anything as the water is very cool.

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by DotDKay
Hi
I have bought a vapochill system, and I am very excited to get it up running. But I have seen several ppl crushed there athlon cores. And basically I am not interested in crushing my new Athlonxp 1800+ :)

So can someone come with some good tips to how I avoid crushing that core?

what else did you get ? :)

[DotDKay]

The rest of my system is:
Asus a7v266-e
2 x 256 mb ddr 2100 crucial ram
Leadtek geforce 3 ti 500(the one with the 2d kvali there match matrox)

And just to make some showoff i was one of the first in the world to get the new asus motherboard :)


Btw. i live in denmark, EU, are there anyone there know where i can buy a shim there will fit with my vapochill, or are there other suggestions?

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by DotDKay

And just to make some showoff i was one of the first in the world to get the new asus motherboard :)

whats taht suppose to mean?

[DotDKay]

That i was one of the first to get the asus a7v266-e.

Don´t get mad, i was glad that we in denmark was the first to get something. Normally we have to read of all the cool thing the other contries get before us :D

[Dissolved]

i dont really care (no offence, not to sound mean or nething)
im totaly happy with my mobo, i just wish it would perform better

[DotDKay]

And in a few weeks you luycky americans will get the geforce 4 and we have to read about it on all the sites and just have to wait :)

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by DotDKay
And in a few weeks you luycky americans will get the geforce 4 and we have to read about it on all the sites and just have to wait :)

well im not gonna shell out for the gf4, seeing i just got a gf3 ti500, ill wait till they make agp 8x mobos and stuff..