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Lol who remembers the old days of running Super-PI on PCBG and Prophecy?
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Dan C
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No idea... still installing software.
OK, I'm asking cause it's the cheapest RAM and I need to get my own system end next week..... so my desires are mostly selfish and partially curiosity.
Dan C
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Well all I can tell you now, it works. I had so much hassle with the CPU fan that I have not even bothered with checking performance yet. But damn this M.2 is mighty fast.
Stock Fan? It refused to properly fit? You almost broke something?
Dan C
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It does not fit on the gigabyte motherboard. There are caps in the way. Now I'm looking for a decent cooler as the back plates of the AM3 I had does not match.
Avoid Gigabyte boards, check. Hahaha
U sure there is only one direction to mount it in? I remember something about these fan/heatsinks being more rectangular than square?
Dan C
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Yeah I checked.. and you can actually mount the fan , but very lopsided on top of the caps.. so now running an old CPU fan which is not too bad.
REALLY odd. The Hyper 212's do run a bit softer though apparently, maybe the board was designed more with something like that in mind... I suggest you inform wootware and get their comments, maybe they will throw in one for free or give a discount on another board if you return it.
If you are refferring to the plastic ring on the cooler interfering with the adjacent vrm heatsinks/shrouds you can reorientate the fan on the heatsink 90° by removing the outer ring and 4 screws.
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It's all pretty much the same but if you want to be fancy you can try the new tech, it's a reusable carbon fibre thermal pad:
I'd love to but those are expensive as feck.It's all pretty much the same but if you want to be fancy you can try the new tech, it's a reusable carbon fibre thermal pad:
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It's more for people that change and upgrade all the time, the stock thermal paste is perfectly fine.
Yeah I change/upgrade once every 5 years....
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No man, he's referring to something more like 3 times a year. I do maintenance every 6 months and always reapply thermal paste after cleaning everything. I'm a qualified technician so that's kind of my job description.
It doesn't matter if you use stock thermal paste or expensive thermal paste - as long as it does the job of transferring heat to the heatsink, it should be fine. I've been doing this 15 years now.
Yeah I know what he meant, personally I have almost never re-applied paste, never need to. But then again I have also never OC'd. I'm very conservative that way.
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I don't OC either - locked multiplier and I prefer it that way. But however, in some places like remote areas or areas that are prone to dust, it is always wiser to check the thermal paste after doing a proper dust cleaning. Sometimes with the heat, thermal paste can go hard and then you need to reapply again. It's worse in the summer with the heat and it does harden over time. That's why I always do maintenance - probably why my Sandybridge setup has lasted me this long (it's nearly 10 years old).
That's food for thought.... got my current i7 2600 5 years ago second hand.... neva touched it after I built it in. Heat seems fine enough even on days that get 40+ degrees ambient and the only odd thing is random usb devices disconnecting and reconnecting sometimes but that would be more of a mobo problem. Neva figured out why it does that.
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Dan C
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No the heatsink is too low and touches the capacitors.
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