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AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core Noise

I'm finding it hard to put on, and I'm a complete noob lol, it says install back plate, that means I have to take the entire mobo out right? I was under the impression it came with adapters but nothing seems to fit ontop of the blue fitting already in there.
 
it comes with intel and amd fitting instructions and different parts for each one.

you just need to do what the guy does on the video above but put a small pea sized ball of thermal paste onto the cpu first.
you dont need to spread it out the weight of the heatsink will do that
 
mmj_uk said:
This basically as the old saying goes you get what you pay for... as a result the AMD stock heatsinks suck donkey balls, get yourself a 3rd party one.
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he already has :P

i was getting 50idle , 58full load on all cores with the stock HSF and the bloody fan reved up to something crazy like 6k rpm lol.

with teh corsair A50 i get 35idle and 40 full load and the fans only 1200rpm (i have a large lian-li case so my results may seem to good to be true on first apearances :P but they are real)
 
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
click one of the links on the right side of the page, if you grab a zip version you dont need to install it.

TMPIN1 is the cpu sensor on my board but it may vary between manufactures

the actual temp it says under the cpu name on all the cores is 24 for me which is definetly wrong by 10c.

i bet your 33-37 is idle which means all the cores downclock to 800mhz to save power and obviously massively lower what the tmep really should be
 
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Ok I've installed it, thanks so much for vid link or i'd never of figured it out!

A couple of things, firstly it overhands 2 ram slots, so I moved the ram over to the next 2 slots which should be fine (theres no performance hit is there on this? like the first 2 aren't more efficient?)

Also my case is too small lol! The side goes on at the front, but theres like a 1inch gap as it hangs off the back, I know this isn't advisable for safety/airflow, but its ok for now, I got 2 spare cases upstairs which are bigger which eventually ill get round to fitting.

Temp is reading now as 21c to 28c and it's super quiet, but ill report back after a bit of usage
 
arknor said:
well years ago i had a celeren and it was very sluggish, my p3 633mhz wasnt very fast either.

intel are rubbish :D
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know the feeling dude, had a Pentium II a while back and it was quite sluggish, not as snappy as one might expect, so +1 for Intel are crap! :p
 
even if it overhangs your ram slot there should still have been room for your ram to fit underneath unless you have high profile ram with the crazy spikes sticking out the top.

there wont be any performance hit from using the other 2 slots aslong as it still shows as running in dual channel mode (should tell you on the boot up screen for your motherboard that flashes on for a few second whens you boot)

its wierd getting used to the noise at first :P you get used to the amd helicopter flying around the inside of your case :P its lonely once its gone
 
I got this ram:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-292-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1387

Doesn't fit in that case + mobo in first 2 slots, but thats fine because I only need 2 wiht the 8GB.

It really is a squeeze with everything in there lol

Super happy with sink and fan, thanks for rec! I'm stable at 25c and never really goes over 40c during games, it's whispering quiet! with the quiet PSU I got it's a really nice PC now with hardly any noise :D Exactly what I wanted!!!!
 
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