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AMD heatsink installation ***Now with Pics***. Now with new question and even more pics.

Thermal Pads are pretty bad at cooling. I would try to remove it without damaging the copper inset and use some quality Arctic Silver thermal goop.
 
Lately, retail AMD chips have NOT been coming with tape over them, but instead a hard plastic shell over the bottom. This is because people kept "forgetting" to take off the tape. It actually says somthing to this effect on the instruction sheet.
 
ok i went and looked at the retail heatsink. i bought the retail 2500+ but didn';t use the hsf.

there is no protective film over the thermal pad. the only thing that came on the heatsink to protect is a sturdy (sorta) plastic piece. the plastic piece is held to the hsf by some yellow tape.

wow.. i read that AMD was shipping a circular piece of cooper on the heatsink then to an aluminum heatsink. that's crazy in a few months that they changed the heatsink.

my heatsink is a square copper screwed into the heatsink.

pics coming.
 
Yes. You may now install the heatsink. Don't try to do it with your bare fingers, heh. They seem to forget to tell you to use a small flatheadscrewdriver to get the second tab latched in place.
 
Originally posted by: shimsham
ive never seen one with that red chip looking thing.
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It's a copper chunk in there. I just got a retail hs/fan and it's the same. The colours are off in his pic though 🙂
 
OK another question.

The fans. Looks like there are more connectors than needed. The Antec case has a 'Fan only' connector which provide regulated power to the fan but the cabling is weird.

Should I just connect them the way they fit? Why are there more wires than needed?
Weird
 
Just connect them however. There are extras presumably in case you wanted to add more fans if I am readn what u said correctly.
 
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
OK thanks, but what are those big wires between the white connectors for?
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That was the thermal pad. It was resolved earlier 😀
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Heatsink fan gets plugged into 3 pin mobo header. Large white things are molex connectors for hard drives, cdrom drives, optical drives, etc. The ones marked fan only are for 4 pin molex fans.

 
the fan only lines underclock the fans and make them spin slower. When the temp of the case gets too hot, the FAN ONLY fans speed up the fans and make them spin faster.

the stock 120mm rear fan is fast and loud. plug it into a regular (WHITE) molex and let her rip. it's LOUD.
plug it into the FAN ONLY (BLACK) and it's whisper quiet.

i plug my rear fan into the FAN ONLY and i have no heating problems what so ever.

i also put a 120mm fan in the front but plugged that into a 3 pin header of my mobo.
 
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