- Joined
- Jun 22, 2002
- Location
- Macomb Twp, Michigan
I just finally got the damn chaintech system hooked up with the new AMD 64 3000+ CPU. I bought the retail cuase i liked the idea of having a coper base HS and 3 year warrenty.. i have a coolermaster HS from the last Opteron 144 1.8GHz i tried before.
Anyways.. First time powering up i go right into the BIOS and check the temps to make sure the dang HS is doing its job and WOW 44C and climbing! I just sat there for a min and watched it go up to 49C! I'm like flipping out.. so i think to myself.. hmmm.. The chaintech did already have that socket HS hold down already on there for me.. I bet i was right once again.. SHould of checked those screws to make sure the damn thing was down nice and tight..
So i go to yank the heatsink off and ummm.. !@#%$@%#!!! I finally get the HS off and umm.. THE DAMN CPU IS STUCK TO IT!! OMG! NO!! And i remember reading the instructions that came with the CPU saying that you should give the heatsink a few twists left and right to break free the HS from the CPU.. but that was if ya used the TIM that was on the retail HS.. and ofcourse i took that off and used my new Artic silver Ceramique.
i guess the HS was really flat and that the AC held the CPU on there like it was crazy glue! Took the cpu off the HS and thank god no damage!. i was like in a huge panic that i just killed the damn CPU before i even got a chance to see it and that i just bought it.. but thank god all was well.. Some of the pins on one edge were leaning just a hair but it went back into the socket nice and flush like the first time.. And yes she still is kicking at this moment.
Now to the point.. I was thinking that maybe this damn retail HS isint putting enough pressure on the CPU like my cooler master does so i switched the 2 and yes.. the cooler master does put more pressure on the cpu.. But did it give me nice temps like it did with the Opteron system.. NOPE! on the opteron even at 1.7v i was getting around 42-44C temps. Well thats what the BIOS siad on the Leadtek board.
Now the same HS on the chaintech is giving me the same high temps in the bios at default voltage of 1.5v.. I uped the voltage to 1.6v and booted into memtest86 just to see if it was stable at 230FSB and nope.. a million errors right away.
So umm.. Anyone know if this board reports the temp too high? Or does these little 64 chips run that much hotter? I never heard anyone ever reporting high temps like this before on a 64 system even with the retail HS.. I'm wondering if that Heat spreader is making good contact wtih the Die? heh i'm not about to take it off and find out though ehehe.
Anyways.. First time powering up i go right into the BIOS and check the temps to make sure the dang HS is doing its job and WOW 44C and climbing! I just sat there for a min and watched it go up to 49C! I'm like flipping out.. so i think to myself.. hmmm.. The chaintech did already have that socket HS hold down already on there for me.. I bet i was right once again.. SHould of checked those screws to make sure the damn thing was down nice and tight..
So i go to yank the heatsink off and ummm.. !@#%$@%#!!! I finally get the HS off and umm.. THE DAMN CPU IS STUCK TO IT!! OMG! NO!! And i remember reading the instructions that came with the CPU saying that you should give the heatsink a few twists left and right to break free the HS from the CPU.. but that was if ya used the TIM that was on the retail HS.. and ofcourse i took that off and used my new Artic silver Ceramique.
i guess the HS was really flat and that the AC held the CPU on there like it was crazy glue! Took the cpu off the HS and thank god no damage!. i was like in a huge panic that i just killed the damn CPU before i even got a chance to see it and that i just bought it.. but thank god all was well.. Some of the pins on one edge were leaning just a hair but it went back into the socket nice and flush like the first time.. And yes she still is kicking at this moment.
Now to the point.. I was thinking that maybe this damn retail HS isint putting enough pressure on the CPU like my cooler master does so i switched the 2 and yes.. the cooler master does put more pressure on the cpu.. But did it give me nice temps like it did with the Opteron system.. NOPE! on the opteron even at 1.7v i was getting around 42-44C temps. Well thats what the BIOS siad on the Leadtek board.
Now the same HS on the chaintech is giving me the same high temps in the bios at default voltage of 1.5v.. I uped the voltage to 1.6v and booted into memtest86 just to see if it was stable at 230FSB and nope.. a million errors right away.
So umm.. Anyone know if this board reports the temp too high? Or does these little 64 chips run that much hotter? I never heard anyone ever reporting high temps like this before on a 64 system even with the retail HS.. I'm wondering if that Heat spreader is making good contact wtih the Die? heh i'm not about to take it off and find out though ehehe.
Spent all night soldering this thing on and checking it with a DMM then mounting the water block and nothing over and over and over and over.. about 30 times easy.. Everytime i'd say i give up i take everything off and thing try soldering it once more hehe.. An endless cycle that lead me the last time to just hold an old swiftech HS on the thing and boot it up to see if she would work.. And ofcourse she did so i go put everything back and just to find out that it would post a few times then not again! hehehe.. KILL ME!
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