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Dan C said:
No the heatsink is too low and touches the capacitors.
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You probably should be a good citizen then and leave proper reviews on wootware when ur done testing the build, others deserve to know.
 
dualmeister said:
ASUS can do this to (on models that support the feature).
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All flash BIOS have a recovery block that is not overwritten when flashed.

Last time I used it was in 2001 when a socket 7 Amptron board I had died. It would just read the floppy drive all the time.

Downloading the latest BIOS file, renaming it to AMIBOOT.ROM and putting that in the drive recovered the board.
 
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Dan C said:
No the heatsink is too low and touches the capacitors.
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Dan C said:
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.
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Very weird. The boards are designed to fit the stock cooler and the amd heatsink has a cutout on two opposing sides to clear the caps on the MB. Either gigabyte or amd screwed up if it does not fit.

How many mm is it out? You could always take a file to the cutout section on the heatsink, will be quick as aluminium is soft.

This fits perfect,
 
Dan C said:
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.
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What?? It fitted perfectly fine on mine, you did remove the plastic things?
 
ponder said:
Very weird. The boards are designed to fit the stock cooler and the amd heatsink has a cutout on two opposing sides to clear the caps on the MB. Either gigabyte or amd screwed up if it does not fit.

How many mm is it out? You could always take a file to the cutout section on the heatsink, will be quick as aluminium is soft.

This fits perfect,
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OK seems to be a step I missed, and the RAM in the wrong slots.. :X3:
 
rambo919 said:
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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Fair enough, my machine has been used as a media PC, work PC and gaming PC - it's never off. It's always on, 24/7.
 
I run a GigaByte B350 Gaming Wifi on my Ryzen 5 2400 and the 200GE was on an A320 Biostar Bitcoin mining board.
 
rambo919 said:
My budget is such that I can unfortunately not afford 14d b-die but I need 32GB RAM for a 2700X on a Asus x470 Tuff mobo..... narrowed my choices down to two kits. Neva heard of TeamGroup but they seem promising.... thoughts?



https://www.wootware.co.za/teamgrou...4-3200mhz-cl16-1-35v-grey-desktop-memory.html

https://www.wootware.co.za/g-skill-...b-3200mhz-ddr4-cl16-1-35v-desktop-memory.html

EDIT: the promoted 2x16GB kit is out of stock anyway so I had start looking for options
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Not to go too off-topic but the word on the street is that Micron e-die is the new Samsung b-die, pity there's no e-die finder like this site available yet:

https://benzhaomin.github.io/bdiefinder/
 
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