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Replacing 4000 cpu with a 4600 X2 -Advice

AnastieByte

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Got a Asus A8N SLI Premium bios 1009. I am going to drop in a 4600 x2 tomorrow. But I have never put in a CPU, removed one or a heatsink.
All advice appreciated. I got a Freezer pro 64 to sit on it.
OMG that is big hope there is room :rolleyes:
 
I would like to know this too. I did my first build back in the summer and installed a amd 4000+ with an arctic freezer 64 pro which was easy. Now i am thinking of buying a amd 64 x2 4800+ on this week only, but i wonder how in hell i remove the arctic freezer. Does it just pull straight off? Do i then clean the heatsink before putting it on the new cpu? :confused: :confused:
 
lol.

i thought hey im sure ive got an arctic Freezer pro 64, that i installed a couple months ago when i changed my CPU, googled imaged it, turns out i put in the fan in the wrong place - at the top :o not on the side, so the fan hasnt had any affect really...was wondering why my temps were a bit high

ANYWAY

you just unclip the freezer pro the same way you put it on, pull up the black clip thing on the side, which should loosen it, then take it off the hook things, and pull it off, might need a hard pull if you had lots of thermal paste on there, thats stuck to the CPU

just unclip the CPU, put new 1 in, clip it in, if you have a tub of thermal paste, then clean the thermal paste already on the Freezer pro 64, and put a fresh thin strip on it, or if you're like me and dont have any more thermal paste, then just leave what was on the heatsink lol and just put it back on

get asus probe and make sure your cpu temps arent too high :p
 
A2Z said:
i thought hey im sure ive got an arctic Freezer pro 64, that i installed a couple months ago when i changed my CPU, googled imaged it, turns out i put in the fan in the wrong place - at the top :o not on the side, so the fan hasnt had any affect really...was wondering why my temps were a bit high
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:D
How on earth did you manage to attach it to the motherboard with the fan on top? String, dental floss?
 
Yeh, not sure how you quite managed that though I did manage to mount the thing the wrong way round so that the hot air was blowing into the middle of my case instead of towards the exhaust :rolleyes: If the thermal pad is stuck good and firm to the CPU, you might wanna try heating it up with a hair dryer.

And don't use Asus Probe btw, the readings are a long way off what they actually are, use Coretemp.
 
Marmoset said:
:D
How on earth did you manage to attach it to the motherboard with the fan on top? String, dental floss?
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it connected fine to the mobo..with the hook things...and the fan seemed to clip on to the fins of the heatsink quite nicely at the top :p

here what it looks like

 
Aah now i see what you mean!
IIRC mine came with the fan already connected so i didn't encounter that particular situation!

:)
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I think the common misconception is that the fan sucks the warm air from between the fins of the heatsink and towards the exhaust whereas it actuallly takes cool air and blow it across the heatsink and thus cooling it. I think my load temps dropped a good 8-10c when I put it on the right way ;)
 
Not yet, will do tomorrow morning when i have some free time and can face cleaning the heatsink and cpu. :(

What do you reckon, Arctic Silver 3 or 5 ?
 
deadeyedic30 said:
Not yet, will do tomorrow morning when i have some free time and can face cleaning the heatsink and cpu. :(

What do you reckon, Arctic Silver 3 or 5 ?
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Look forward to hearing the results :)
 
Temp is currently 37 degrees with the cooler on the "right" way now. Just a matter of waiting for the Arctic Siler to bed in. :)
Used to idle in low to mid 40's.
 
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