I just got a Duron 750 Retail, and it comes with the heatsink and all. I just installed it (dunno if I did it correctly, this is a first for me building my own computer), but it says on the site that if you incorrectly install it, the thermal compound is unreusable. There was pink stuff (thermal compound?) on the heatsink that wasn't even covered (it shows something thats covered in the install guide) when I got the heatsink, and it came with a piece of paper, which I think was supposed to be on the heatsink. But I realized that theres a blue thing on it covering something, and I guess I could take it off but I'm not sure what it's covering (thermal compound?).
So what's the chances of me damaging the CPU and what is the stuff thats on the piece of paper that came with the heatsink?
[Edited by Hyudra on 01-17-2001 at 03:12 PM]
Question on installing a CPU
1) if you line up all the pins on the cpu with the holes on the socket and it goes in with little or no force, and the clamp lever goes back down with little or no force, you're good on the cpu.
2) if you have some thermal paste handy, scrape off the heat pad on the heatsink and use a little dab of thermal paste instead. the purpose of thermal paste is to provide an ever so slight coating between the cpu and the heatsink so that any irregularities in the surfaces are filled and you have close to 100% contact which means better heat transfer. if you don't have any thermal paste, get some. i buy cooling stuff from 2cooltek.com and he is very reliable.
you can used the heat pad but do not overclock more than a little bit.
3) the fans that come with retail durons are NOT for overclocking. these pupplies heat up really fast and you can cook it. if you mobo tells you what the temp of the cpu is you can play around a little with overclocking but try to stay under 45 C. The chips heat up very fast when overclocked and the retail heatsink cannot keep up.
3. if your mobo supports changing the multiplier on the cpu, search the threads here for different was to unlock -
a 750 duron should do ~1000
remember everybody built their first computer and wasn't sure what to do - ask questions and the lunatics here will do their best to help you!
enjoy!
2) if you have some thermal paste handy, scrape off the heat pad on the heatsink and use a little dab of thermal paste instead. the purpose of thermal paste is to provide an ever so slight coating between the cpu and the heatsink so that any irregularities in the surfaces are filled and you have close to 100% contact which means better heat transfer. if you don't have any thermal paste, get some. i buy cooling stuff from 2cooltek.com and he is very reliable.
you can used the heat pad but do not overclock more than a little bit.
3) the fans that come with retail durons are NOT for overclocking. these pupplies heat up really fast and you can cook it. if you mobo tells you what the temp of the cpu is you can play around a little with overclocking but try to stay under 45 C. The chips heat up very fast when overclocked and the retail heatsink cannot keep up.
3. if your mobo supports changing the multiplier on the cpu, search the threads here for different was to unlock -
a 750 duron should do ~1000
remember everybody built their first computer and wasn't sure what to do - ask questions and the lunatics here will do their best to help you!
enjoy!
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