A few questions...

dazftw

Right I got my mobo today so that just leaves the 8800 to come along before my pc is finished!!!!!

Anyways as I was building today I had a few little problems..

When I was closing the socket cover for the cpu I had to put a fair bit of force into it for it to fully go down! Im sure I had it in the right way! Is this normal?

The thermal paste now I used a rice sized bit of paste and spread it with my atm card? Now its basically less than paper thin on the cpu is that ok?

Another problem was the internal connecters... I have the power and reset switches in! The audio ones are causing me problems! Theres no corresponding things to match them up.. Like with the other connections! I have an X-Fi xtreme gamer sound card will I have to connect them to the card or the board itself?

(ill be able to post pictures tomorrow on as im in work now..)

Also lol a funny question could ruin everything can I get a static shock of ram just out of the packet? I felt something.. It might have been nothing but I said id ask! I was holding the motherboard before hand and felt nothing..

Thanks

Khannie

DeafVision wrote:

When I was closing the socket cover for the cpu I had to put a fair bit of force into it for it to fully go down! Im sure I had it in the right way! Is this normal?

I was surprised at how much force it requires too, so I suppose it is normal.

DeafVision wrote:

The thermal paste now I used a rice sized bit of paste and spread it with my atm card? Now its basically less than paper thin on the cpu is that ok?

I have found this method to be lacking in my most recent build (there were gaps). I'd recommend reading the instructions on the arctic silver website. They're top notch.

dazftw

ill post up pictures now in a second...



Now... I hope its ok.. I don't want to have to take off the fan again.. loads of force to be had there aswell lol I don't like the forcing idea..

dazftw

Right so... I powered her up and she turned on and no beeps or anything so she must be good.. I have no graphics card yet so I cant get the picture to tell but everything seems ok!

TerrorFirmer

That thermal paste looks fine but you might want a tiny bit extra along the sides there, it looks fairly sparse. The force is normal. You don't really need to connect any audio cables to your card for it to work, I just left mine out as they were, tied them back and stuck them up at the top of my case.

8T8

The X-Fi cannot be connected to the front port audio connections without a special adapter that Creative do not sell* but it is possible to make your own.

Everything else looks okay & force is normal.


* Well they do to certain system builder companies but as far as I know it is not publicly available.

dazftw

Yea I used the sound card you get with the mobo to check if there was any beeps or anything and there wasnt so all is good so far!

ugh.. I WANT my 8800 now... so bad to play with this beast lol