Arctic Freezer 7 Pro fitting..

sychnant

sychnant

sychnant

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My bits have just arrived...and i forgot to order any arctic silver, i notice that my cooler has a a grey pad on its base . will this do as well or do i need to carefully remove this and go and buy some artcic silver( or equiv)?
It looks as though i can fit this cooler without taking the fan off although they say to do so in the instructions Any hints? Thanks :-))).
PS... just checking my bits and i dont see an audio lead for the DVDR to the MB... who would provide that?? :-(((



Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler

Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2(1.9-2.0 Volts-CL 4-4-4-15)

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache

Pioneer DVR-112DBK 18x18 DVD±RW IDE Dual Layer ReWriter

EVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB Superclocked- GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) -

Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS II Aluminium Midi-Tower Case

Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
 
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Looks very similar to the spec I have ordered up, I've searched around the forums this afternoon about precisely this and the advice regarding the TIM is on the whole to leave it on as its AC's MX1 which seems to be on par with AS5, although this is only what I've read here so I cant confirm thsi myself.

Are you planning on overclocking it, if so I'd be interested to hear what you get it to and what your temps are like :)
 
Thanks for the help everyone... :-) Sepulchre....I might take the CPU up a bit but i prefer stability to a few extra Mhz and possible sleepless nights:-) One thing i am going to do though ( been advised) is to set it up out of the case first to make sure it boots to the Bios Ok and then assemble it in the case. and add the HD etc..
 
sychnant said:
Thanks for the help everyone... :-) Sepulchre....I might take the CPU up a bit but i prefer stability to a few extra Mhz and possible sleepless nights:-) One thing i am going to do though ( been advised) is to set it up out of the case first to make sure it boots to the Bios Ok and then assemble it in the case. and add the HD etc..
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I fitted mine with the motherboard out of the case.It`s much easier to locate the pushpins in the holes of the mobo.The heatsink is a bit on the big side, when you fit it with motherboard in the case it gets a bit fiddly.

tommysdad
 
just a thought (and probably a noobish one) but if you set-up initially out of the case how do you boot it up, just short the pins on the mobo which you would link up to the on/off button?
 
sepulchre said:
just a thought (and probably a noobish one) but if you set-up initially out of the case how do you boot it up, just short the pins on the mobo which you would link up to the on/off button?
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Yep, just use a jumper to do it. Although, it's only the CPU cooler that you need to build out the case I find, then put it in and add everything else then boot.
 
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