I think I broke it :(

[sheldonleigh]

Hey guys, I made a novice mistake on Friday.

I saw that my heat sink on my CPU was very dirty so I decided to clean it. I made the mistake of breaking the seal between the sink and CPU. I put it back and thought it'd be ok, it's not

COD crashed yesterday and when I checked the temps the CPU had hit 73*C. Now the PC is going super slow even when it's cold. (turned it on to print something quick, well slow but you get the picture)

Is there a possibility that the CPU is broken?? How will I know?? I have ordered a Noctua NH-D14 which will arrive this week. The CPU in question is a Phenom 2 x4 940 Black Edition.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Lorem-Ipsum]

There is no 'seal' as such. Its what is called thermal paste and is just used to transfer the heat from the chip to the heatsink.

I would remove the old stuff and any residue left with an alcohol solution from both the cooler and cpu, then add a pea size of new paste and re-seat the cooler. You need to make the the cooler sits on nice and snug too.

 

[benj3]

You just havnt placed the cpu cooler back on the cpu correctly make sure its seated very firm with a layer of thermal paste on and you should be fine.

 

[sheldonleigh]

Great

I didn't know that it was a paste. I thought maybe a glue to kill vibration.

I have been reading and people say don't go over 68*C. How would i know if ive done real damage to the processor.

Thanks

 

[tinytomlogan]

Great

I didn't know that it was a paste. I thought maybe a glue to kill vibration.

I have been reading and people say don't go over 68*C. How would i know if ive done real damage to the processor.

Thanks

It will be fine. Just clean off the old paste and apply some fresh and it will all be good again. Make sure you buy something non conductive and it will be fine

 

[sheldonleigh]

It will be fine. Just clean off the old paste and apply some fresh and it will all be good again. Make sure you buy something non conductive and it will be fine

I have ordered a Noctua nh-d14. Based on your review. Free next day (equivalent- they say free super saver but 8/10 of time it arrives next working day) from novatech.

Thanks to all the people on this site for the help. Tom for the reviews( shedding light on kit so we aren't buying in thr dark.

Jere is hoping the massive cooler fits my case

 

[Brooksie]

Glad you've sorted it

 

[Stryker64]

The paste the Noctua comes with is excellent, spreads like...butter on hot toast.

So use some cleaning alcohol dab it onto a cleaning cloth and wipe it clean. If you don't have a cleaning cloth use tissue paper, clean it until you don't get any residue on the paper.

After that just add a small amount of thermal paste, probably the size of half a pea, mount the Noctua and PROFITS!

 

[sheldonleigh]

The paste the Noctua comes with is excellent, spreads like...butter on hot toast.

So use some cleaning alcohol dab it onto a cleaning cloth and wipe it clean. If you don't have a cleaning cloth use tissue paper, clean it until you don't get any residue on the paper.

After that just add a small amount of thermal paste, probably the size of half a pea, mount the Noctua and PROFITS!

Thanks

I have stripped the pc down, removed stock cooler and I'm in the process of making space for the HD 6970.

Thanks also for your guidance. I would have done it wrong

the question I have is;

Do I have to use the Noctua back plate or can I leave the stock coolers back plate in and bolt the cooler to that. I have never removed a motherboard and it will need to be taken out to install the noctua back plate.

 

[sheldonleigh]

Glad you've sorted it

Thanks Brooksie

Yes I'm getting there slowly

It's great to have such a helpful bunch.

 

[Diablo]

I'd put the Noctua backplate in if it says to in the instructions. To take the motherboard out, remove all of the power cables (8 pin ATX, 24Pin ATX), remove any cards installed. Make sure to keep touching an earthe PC case (as long as it is plugged in, you should be OK). Then unplug anything on the IO panel (e.g. USB cables). FInally carefully unscrew each screw in the motherboard and place them in a bag. Check you have every screw out, then lift the board out. If it does not come easily, check if you have left any screws in.

 

[Stryker64]

I'm pretty sure you'll need to use the Noctua backplate since the Noctua D14 is a heavy cooler so you'll need the solid backplate they provide. Last thing you want is your cooler coming loose and damaging things in your case. But don't worry the Noctua mounting system is simple and the instruction manual is easy to follow.

EDIT: I've just remember you use an AMD, you won't need to use a Noctua backplate since it uses the default one.

 

[sheldonleigh]

Yaaay

2 good things

1: 9months in a cast from the shoulder down ended today Cast is off and I find that I have 0muscle and scaley skin oO But no more cast

2: Noctua arrived and is installed. Very big!! But fits and instilation is a dream.

Tomorrow my 6970 arrives and it's pew pew time

In my case there is a rack that is meant to hold HDDs, it has 1 HDD in it at te moment but with te rack in the HD6970 won't fit. Is it frowned apon to take a laser cutter to your hdd rack?? I just want to cut out 2HDD bays for the rear of the card to slot in

Guys and girls thanks for the input I do really appreciate it

Without the OC3D community I'd be lost when it came to computer things.

Oh and tomorrow I'm going to attempt to OC the 3Ghz BE processor to 3.6Ghz. That I really will need talking through

 

[JezEngland]

This should help and I searched: how to overclock AMD Phenom x4 BE. There loads of vids

If you motherboard is ASUS there are vids for using Turbo V(ASUS's overclocking utility)

I guess your is the 940

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_RMpnHRPqU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fr4yBkOQZE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OLb7EJB-DE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQWTtvn98uU

 

[Stryker64]

With the Noctua and if you got a decent lottery, you should be able to hit 3.9-4GHz