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CPU Question

M

Mahone

Junior Member
Well i finally got my new computer i'm building to post after several days of hair pulling and a couple frustration beers to calm back down lol.

The problem was the cpu wasnt seated correctly. Now for my questions:

Background:
When i lifted the fan and heatsink of the cpu (its an Intel 2.53 and the fan/heatsink are the standard ones that come with the retail box) the cpu was actually stuck to the bottom of the heatsink. The pad on the bottom of the heatsink. When i tried to put it back in it woulndt go...thats when i discovered that one of the pins was bent. I bent it back and finally got it to go back in place and then put the heatsink and fan back on it. Also, a lot of the pad had been rubbed off the bottom of the heatsink on to the chip etc. It did post and recognized the chip.

My questions:

Do you think this is going to adversely the performance of the chip?
Am i going to run into cooling problems later down the line?
Are do you think as long as the motherboard recognized it...everything is good?

thanks in advance for any responses!
 


Probably not rubbed off as much as simply squashed would be my guess. You're probably going to be just fine. If you have any lofty overclocking goals you may want to clean it all off and start over with some heatsink compound. If you don't plan on overclocking then I would neither fool with it nor worry about it.

 
Thanks for the replies...yeah i dont plan on overclocking it right now since i'm moving up from a 400P2 so it will be more than fast enough for me. I just loaded up the ASUS application that monitors temperature and also have a Hardcano 2 installed which has two temp montors that i have loaded up so i will be able to watch that.
 
Back when I was n00B I had a Cyrix M2 chip that I bent half the pins on when struggling with a strange Socket 7 motherboard.....I carefully bent back....and all was fine!.....it's only when you snap them off that you have to worry!

Worth running a benchmark or too to see if everything is on par.

Corm
 
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