Help with installing Akasa Nero on a Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H Motherboard- please!

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Ok, if you've read any of my other posts you'll realise I'm new to all this so be patient with me!

I'm about to install an Akasa Nero on a Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H Motherboard with an AMD Socket 3.

Looking at how it fits I don't think I can install it without moving my RAM across from one dual channel to another. OC recommended this cooler and so did others on the forum, so I'm sure this can't be correct.

The instructions don't give much away, so I'm wondering if anyone has fitted this cooler to this motherboard and how to do it!

cheers - here's what it looks like:

akasanero.jpg
 
I had the Akasa with the Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P board. It covered 2 of the RAM slots. Found the system ran very hot and ended up replacing the Akasa with the Corsiar H50. Temps dropped rougly 10 degrees at idle and freed up the RAM slots.
 
If thats the case I dont understand why it was recommended to me. This morning I removed the stock cooler to install this and now it does'nt fit! Will look into the Corsair and maybe re-fit the cooler I took off this morning in the meantime.

Thanks for the quick response on this - much appreciated :)
 
Just read this review of the cooler:

Good silent cooler, but watch out if you have a socket AM2+ as you cannot change the direction of the cooler. This means you lose the 2 ram slots nearest the CPU as you can only mount it facing towards the top or bottom of the case :(

It'll do, but should I need more ram, it'll have to go!

Think I'm going to fit stock cooler and send the Akasa back to OC and try and find an aftermarket that fits in the meantime! :(
 
You'd think these day's they'd have developed a cooler that didn't compromise the components around the chip. Either that or the motherboard manufactures position items a bit further away.

btw, I see your photography skills have been put to good use.
 
btw, I see your photography skills have been put to good use.

lol, its very hard for me to explain a lot of things being new to all this so I figured its probably easier to just post a pic to avoid any confusion.

At the moment I've decided to re-fit the stock cooler and see how that goes.
OC have offered to take the Akasa back and have been very helpful and understanding.
If in the future I feel that I need to go for an aftremarket cooler then it will have to be one that does'nt cover the RAM slots!!
Like you I'm amazed that they do it and even more amazed that they manage to sell any units!!
 
Hi again,

I bought the Ultima Warlord package off here and it came with the Akasa as the CPU cooler. When running several applications it constantly BSOD'ed. After various webnotes OC agreed to refund the Akasa. The H50 has made a massive difference to me. Sitting on an AMD 955 @ 3.8 at 40 degrees idle, which the Akasa was nowhere near. Used Artic Silver paste when applying the H50 if it helps.
 
Speaking of thermal paste, you did apply the "right" amount of thermal paste onto the chip didn't you hitman? Search on here regarding how much.

Think. Less is more.
 
Speaking of thermal paste, you did apply the "right" amount of thermal paste onto the chip didn't you hitman? Search on here regarding how much.

Think. Less is more.

applied a grain of rice amount, added more because it didn't look enough and then took it back off again lol
....but why do they include so much paste with the cooler??
 
hitman said:
Like you I'm amazed that they do it and even more amazed that they manage to sell any units!!
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It's the price paid for choosing AM3. I had the exact same issue with my new system, but as the cooler came to me thanks to a mate's upgrade I just bent the lower fins upwards slightly to clear the DIMMS. Temps haven't suffered afaik - idles ~28C and fully loaded I haven't got it over 49C yet.

Congrats on the build btw, Hitman. It's been a few years since I put one together myself so I know what you're going through and really admire your coolness under pressure. :)
 
The H50 has made a massive difference to me. Sitting on an AMD 955 @ 3.8 at 40 degrees idle, which the Akasa was nowhere near. Used Artic Silver paste when applying the H50 if it helps.

TBH this is what I will go for in a couple of months

Congrats on the build btw, Hitman. It's been a few years since I put one together myself so I know what you're going through and really admire your coolness under pressure.

cheers but I still need to get all the cables connected which to a newbie such as myself isn't that easy and then get it to work!!
 
I recently disassembled a computer I put together when I first started building. I had to shake my head at the amount of paste I'd used... back then I thought it should be like the filling in a jam sandwich, heh!

The right idea is you want as much metal touching metal as possible. The paste is just there to fill the tiny, tiny grooves where the two metal surfaces aren't touching.

In an ideal world, where both surfaces were perfectly smooth and level, you wouldn't use paste at all.
 
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