The Scythe had 4 plastic "push and twist" pins, which were tucked up right underneath the heatsink itself, making installation quite tricky, some force was needed to get the pins in, but access was the main issue, and I don't think the board warped.
The staggered spin up sorted out the ssd detection issue, of that I am certain. But even after that I continued to suffer random BSODs and some very quickly after boot. I have not cast away my old ram, I have merely added another identical set, which I can now do with the Noctua installed. I did put the old ram in the other pair if dimm slots that were previously not used.
So the solution has come from one of reseating CPU, and adding the Noctua, or changing dimm of original ram.
But as you said, it doesn't matter so long as I am stable.
I started watching Madmen on blu ray on it last night. I have a standalone blu ray player but it takes an age to read the disk and get into the main menu, which seems to be quite common of hifi separates. On the pc I am in within a matter if seconds, and picture and sound quality are great. It's nice to be able to use the machine fir what I bought it for.
The staggered spin up sorted out the ssd detection issue, of that I am certain. But even after that I continued to suffer random BSODs and some very quickly after boot. I have not cast away my old ram, I have merely added another identical set, which I can now do with the Noctua installed. I did put the old ram in the other pair if dimm slots that were previously not used.
So the solution has come from one of reseating CPU, and adding the Noctua, or changing dimm of original ram.
But as you said, it doesn't matter so long as I am stable.
I started watching Madmen on blu ray on it last night. I have a standalone blu ray player but it takes an age to read the disk and get into the main menu, which seems to be quite common of hifi separates. On the pc I am in within a matter if seconds, and picture and sound quality are great. It's nice to be able to use the machine fir what I bought it for.