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Silly question regarding fitting an Asus Star Ice onto an Asus A8N-SLI motherboard
This may seem a stupid question, but having just bought one of these
monsters to go with my Asus A8N-SLI motherboard (Skt 939), I'm struggling to fit it. Because of the cutout on the base of the cooler, whichever way round I put it, it just doesn't cover the whole of the CPU, always leaving a slim edge uncovered. Now am I just being stupid, or should this thing be in direct contact with the CPU over its entire surface? It almost seems to me that there is a fundamental design fault with it but I've heard of loads of other people using it without problems with an AMD 64. I would certainly expect it to be compatible with an Asus motherboard... Never had this problem before with other HSFs Someone please put me out of my misery!!! Cheers Guy |
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Possible, repeat possible, that it won't fit a Socket 939 processor. The
specs show: LGA775, Socket 478, K7, K8 as far as sockets go. They do list a cooler specific to Socket 939...HTH... "Guy Shepherd" wrote in message om... This may seem a stupid question, but having just bought one of these monsters to go with my Asus A8N-SLI motherboard (Skt 939), I'm struggling to fit it. Because of the cutout on the base of the cooler, whichever way round I put it, it just doesn't cover the whole of the CPU, always leaving a slim edge uncovered. Now am I just being stupid, or should this thing be in direct contact with the CPU over its entire surface? It almost seems to me that there is a fundamental design fault with it but I've heard of loads of other people using it without problems with an AMD 64. I would certainly expect it to be compatible with an Asus motherboard... Never had this problem before with other HSFs Someone please put me out of my misery!!! Cheers Guy |
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I checked with the supplier (and a review in Custom PC) and it's
definitely supposed to fit Socket 939. I can't believe it won't fit a motherboard made by the same company!! There seems to be a lot of trouble with this heatsink and this motherboard. Wish I had found this out before I bought it. The problem seems to be that it doesn't seem to be possible to fit the heatsink in such a way that it is centred on the processor. Whichever orientation is chosen, the cutout on the base of the heatsink exposes one edge of the processor. If I could fit it off centre somehow it would be fine, but the standard fixings won't allow it. I'm presuming that it's not good to leave any of the surface of the CPU exposed...? Guy "chuckie®" wrote in message ... Possible, repeat possible, that it won't fit a Socket 939 processor. The specs show: LGA775, Socket 478, K7, K8 as far as sockets go. They do list a cooler specific to Socket 939...HTH... "Guy Shepherd" wrote in message om... This may seem a stupid question, but having just bought one of these monsters to go with my Asus A8N-SLI motherboard (Skt 939), I'm struggling to fit it. Because of the cutout on the base of the cooler, whichever way round I put it, it just doesn't cover the whole of the CPU, always leaving a slim edge uncovered. Now am I just being stupid, or should this thing be in direct contact with the CPU over its entire surface? It almost seems to me that there is a fundamental design fault with it but I've heard of loads of other people using it without problems with an AMD 64. I would certainly expect it to be compatible with an Asus motherboard... Never had this problem before with other HSFs Someone please put me out of my misery!!! Cheers Guy |
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I must confess ignorance on the subject of any part of the CPU being
exposed. Never had the problem and haven't read anything about it. It would seem logical that it shouldn't be, however, it may be alright. I have a 64/3000+ (socket 754) that I got an Arctic Cool cooler for, now, if I enable it, the m/b 'guru' thinks the CPU is overheating constantly (it isn't). Like you said, you would think that the m/b manufacturer would know what would work and what wouldn't. Mayhap, some other kind soul will have better advice...luck... "Guy Shepherd" wrote in message om... I checked with the supplier (and a review in Custom PC) and it's definitely supposed to fit Socket 939. I can't believe it won't fit a motherboard made by the same company!! There seems to be a lot of trouble with this heatsink and this motherboard. Wish I had found this out before I bought it. The problem seems to be that it doesn't seem to be possible to fit the heatsink in such a way that it is centred on the processor. Whichever orientation is chosen, the cutout on the base of the heatsink exposes one edge of the processor. If I could fit it off centre somehow it would be fine, but the standard fixings won't allow it. I'm presuming that it's not good to leave any of the surface of the CPU exposed...? Guy "chuckie®" wrote in message ... Possible, repeat possible, that it won't fit a Socket 939 processor. The specs show: LGA775, Socket 478, K7, K8 as far as sockets go. They do list a cooler specific to Socket 939...HTH... "Guy Shepherd" wrote in message om... This may seem a stupid question, but having just bought one of these monsters to go with my Asus A8N-SLI motherboard (Skt 939), I'm struggling to fit it. Because of the cutout on the base of the cooler, whichever way round I put it, it just doesn't cover the whole of the CPU, always leaving a slim edge uncovered. Now am I just being stupid, or should this thing be in direct contact with the CPU over its entire surface? It almost seems to me that there is a fundamental design fault with it but I've heard of loads of other people using it without problems with an AMD 64. I would certainly expect it to be compatible with an Asus motherboard... Never had this problem before with other HSFs Someone please put me out of my misery!!! Cheers Guy |
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