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Questions from one who has never built a computer before
Does a heatsink, cpu fan, thermal paste come with a retail cpu (AMD 2500+)
or do I need to buy these items? Do cables to connect a retail motherboard (Aopen AK79D) to various connectors come with the motherboard or do I need to buy these items? Is a floppy drive necessary? -- Phil |
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Phil Pease wrote:
Does a heatsink, cpu fan, thermal paste come with a retail cpu (AMD 2500+) or do I need to buy these items? Dont know about retail, but OEM doesnt. Do cables to connect a retail motherboard (Aopen AK79D) to various connectors come with the motherboard or do I need to buy these items? Usually the connectors to the case come with the case and the IDE / floppy cables come with the MOBO. Is a floppy drive necessary? No. Not with a self booting CD ROM. -- MCR MAME - History In The Making WWW.Lazarus.org.uk for a free MAME ROM set, Just P&P. |
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retail boxed CPU's Intel, AMD, Cyrix, all come with HSF's
cables to hook up the drives and CD-ROM come with the MB floppies are a necessity but not as much as prior years....with the introduction of the bootable CD-ROM and that option in the bios, its getting less and less a necessity...but is needed for driver installs that only come on floppies. "Phil Pease" wrote in message news:sFSkb.189193$%h1.179943@sccrnsc02... Does a heatsink, cpu fan, thermal paste come with a retail cpu (AMD 2500+) or do I need to buy these items? Do cables to connect a retail motherboard (Aopen AK79D) to various connectors come with the motherboard or do I need to buy these items? Is a floppy drive necessary? -- Phil |
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"Phil Pease" wrote in message news:sFSkb.189193$%h1.179943@sccrnsc02... Does a heatsink, cpu fan, thermal paste come with a retail cpu (AMD 2500+) or do I need to buy these items? retail cpu does come with cpu fan heatsink. As thermal paste it does comes with some paste pre applied. I do recommend removing this (with rubbing alcohol) and apply acrtic silver 3. Do cables to connect a retail motherboard (Aopen AK79D) to various connectors come with the motherboard or do I need to buy these items? motherboard does come with various connectors IF it is retail Is a floppy drive necessary? no a necessity but good to have. -- Phil |
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you NEED a floppy if your installing SATA drivers/similar
i encountered this problem on my a7n8x dlx rev2.0 board when installing winXP home on my 2 new western digital SATA raptor drives. there were drivers on the asus supplied driver cd, but winXP install will not search the CD drive for HDD controllers. tim "Joseph" wrote in message ... "Phil Pease" wrote in message news:sFSkb.189193$%h1.179943@sccrnsc02... Does a heatsink, cpu fan, thermal paste come with a retail cpu (AMD 2500+) or do I need to buy these items? retail cpu does come with cpu fan heatsink. As thermal paste it does comes with some paste pre applied. I do recommend removing this (with rubbing alcohol) and apply acrtic silver 3. Do cables to connect a retail motherboard (Aopen AK79D) to various connectors come with the motherboard or do I need to buy these items? motherboard does come with various connectors IF it is retail Is a floppy drive necessary? no a necessity but good to have. -- Phil |
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Howdy!
"Phil Pease" wrote in message news:sFSkb.189193$%h1.179943@sccrnsc02... Does a heatsink, cpu fan, thermal paste come with a retail cpu (AMD 2500+) or do I need to buy these items? Yes, with the retail "Processor in a Box" package. And if it's not in the package, then it's not a retail CPU. Do cables to connect a retail motherboard (Aopen AK79D) to various connectors come with the motherboard or do I need to buy these items? If purchased as new, boxed, yes. If used or bulk, ask who you're buying this from. Is a floppy drive necessary? I'd say so for maintenance. But, really, it's not necessary for EVERYONE. RwP |
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Phil Pease wrote:
Does a heatsink, cpu fan, thermal paste come with a retail cpu (AMD 2500+) or do I need to buy these items? Do cables to connect a retail motherboard (Aopen AK79D) to various connectors come with the motherboard or do I need to buy these items? Is a floppy drive necessary? -- Phil Because I was a first time builder at this time last year, I chose the following option from mwave.com: For $9, they "Assembly and testing option includes installation of memory, processor, and cooling fan. CPU settings will be set, and inital boot will be performed. http://www.mwave.com/mwave/DEPTBUNCP...EPTBUNCPU.HMX? This was my biggest concern as a first time builder, and as far as I'm concerned, $9 well spent. As for the floppy: They are not absolutely needed, but less than $20...why not??? |
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You can always get a USB floppy.
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Phil Pease wrote:
Does a heatsink, cpu fan, thermal paste come with a retail cpu (AMD 2500+) or do I need to buy these items? They come with it. I bought a 2500+ a couple months ago. The stock setup is adequate for minor overclocking. It came with a wax-like layer of thermal interface material (TIM) on the HS. Install the HSF BEFORE installing the mobo. The TIM is easily and harmlessly removed with coffee filters and 91% isopropyl alcohol if you have to. Then you can use some aftermarket thermal compound. But don't: just get it right the first time. That's a great processor BTW---great choice. |
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check out amd's web site.
they recommend AGAINST using paste They want you to use the pad that comes with the cpu/fan |
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