- Joined
- Feb 25, 2002
- Location
- Calgary AB Canada
Well friends gather round for a sad sad tale, it all begins a few months ago.
I purchased a slk-800 for my athlon system, now because I had taken off the heatsink and cleaned it with iso a good few times those foam pads that they give you had been eaten away. So I emailed thermalright and asked them if they could sell me some new pads for the slk-800. They offered to send me replacements for free so I was exstatic. Once they arrived I figured I'd wait to put them on the next time I took off my hs. Now fast forward to last week, when I ordered a 1700 JIUHB From excaliberpc. After paying through the nose (140 canadian after duty fees and conversion) I was anxiously awaiting my new cpu. (if you are wondering why I didn't buy locally it is because nowhere around here will let you pick and or gauruntee steppings). So I finally recive the cpu after working a god aweful 12hr day and I decide to put it in. I place it in the socket put on some as3 and set up the 4 pads that thermalright sent me, clamp everything down and got ready to boot up.
Well it booted all right, but didn't get to the bios, and that is when I smelled the smell of death, and the system shut down. My heart sank as I pulled off the heatsink, only to reveal the truth. That the pads that thermalright gave me actually prevented the heatsink from touching the core! (to try and lighten things up the arctic silver turned totally white!) and that is the story, I can't believe thermalright would do something like that.
Please note that everything was by the books, but I guess I should've known when the pads they sent me were about a mm larger than the ones that come on the amd chips. Now I'm off to buy a 2100+Tbred and I won't be using those pads.
I purchased a slk-800 for my athlon system, now because I had taken off the heatsink and cleaned it with iso a good few times those foam pads that they give you had been eaten away. So I emailed thermalright and asked them if they could sell me some new pads for the slk-800. They offered to send me replacements for free so I was exstatic. Once they arrived I figured I'd wait to put them on the next time I took off my hs. Now fast forward to last week, when I ordered a 1700 JIUHB From excaliberpc. After paying through the nose (140 canadian after duty fees and conversion) I was anxiously awaiting my new cpu. (if you are wondering why I didn't buy locally it is because nowhere around here will let you pick and or gauruntee steppings). So I finally recive the cpu after working a god aweful 12hr day and I decide to put it in. I place it in the socket put on some as3 and set up the 4 pads that thermalright sent me, clamp everything down and got ready to boot up.
Well it booted all right, but didn't get to the bios, and that is when I smelled the smell of death, and the system shut down. My heart sank as I pulled off the heatsink, only to reveal the truth. That the pads that thermalright gave me actually prevented the heatsink from touching the core! (to try and lighten things up the arctic silver turned totally white!) and that is the story, I can't believe thermalright would do something like that.
Please note that everything was by the books, but I guess I should've known when the pads they sent me were about a mm larger than the ones that come on the amd chips. Now I'm off to buy a 2100+Tbred and I won't be using those pads.