Hi, i am Panyan and i am a PC enthusiast as all of you are. I have been repairing computers and upgrading them for about 10 years now. I have never, though, felt the need to join a forum. I decided to becuase i want to ask about some upcoming projects. Anyway, before i get to that, i want to show you what i did last weekend 
I bought a Q8200 from ebay, got some arctic silver and a arctic cooler freezer pro 7 V2 from overclockers. This is the first time i have EVER tinkered with a cpu and it wasnt so much of an upgrade as an opportunity to expand my knowledge
Enjoy the image below and please comment
These are BOTH BEFORE and AFTER pictures - the original was the E8400 with this cooler, i replaced it with the Q8200, using arctic silver 5 and the arctic cooler freezer pro 7 V2
(i know a lot of you will say that the Q8200 is worse than the E8400, but this is my budget CAD machine which benefits from more cores than higher clock speeds for rendering and ALSO im not comfortbale overclocking on such a low-powered PSU SO for me the Q8200 is better than the E8400 )
One problem i had was that i thought the stock cooler just used the intel push-pin system, but it used a backplate instead. I had to use pliers to cut off metal rings that held the screws/springs in the old cooler so that i could use the backplate and screws on the new cooler for a better fit and more effiecient thermal movement. You can see below how the old screws and backplate fitted with the new arctic freezer mounting plate
this is the one i was referring to:
I bought a Q8200 from ebay, got some arctic silver and a arctic cooler freezer pro 7 V2 from overclockers. This is the first time i have EVER tinkered with a cpu and it wasnt so much of an upgrade as an opportunity to expand my knowledge
Enjoy the image below and please comment
These are BOTH BEFORE and AFTER pictures - the original was the E8400 with this cooler, i replaced it with the Q8200, using arctic silver 5 and the arctic cooler freezer pro 7 V2
(i know a lot of you will say that the Q8200 is worse than the E8400, but this is my budget CAD machine which benefits from more cores than higher clock speeds for rendering and ALSO im not comfortbale overclocking on such a low-powered PSU
SO for me the Q8200 is better than the E8400 )
One problem i had was that i thought the stock cooler just used the intel push-pin system, but it used a backplate instead. I had to use pliers to cut off metal rings that held the screws/springs in the old cooler so that i could use the backplate and screws on the new cooler for a better fit and more effiecient thermal movement. You can see below how the old screws and backplate fitted with the new arctic freezer mounting plate
this is the one i was referring to:
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