<< I bought a used 750mhz athlon and it has this big silver plate attached to it ( gfd?? ) and it looks like it is supposed to be touching 2 chips to the left and right of the core but it is not.. is it critical that these be touching the chips? Also, is there a good way to secure the processor in the slot when you're not using an enclosed style heatsink ( like retail slot1 intels )? Right now I just have the heatsink/fan attached to the gfd(?) and it seems a sligh bit flimsy when the processor is installed. TIA.. BTW, what does gfd stand for? Never seen a processor like this.. not firmiliar w/ the term.
Justin >>
The silver plate isn't the GFD (Gold Finger Device). GFD are used to change the mulitplier on the Athlons and are small connectors and dip switches that connect to the connector on top of the Athlon.
The silver plate is 'heat speader'? Can't think of the word for it right now, and the HS would attach to that.
On my old Epox board the gave me a plastic retention clip that would slide through the heat sink fins and be attached to the mobo. They also had clips for Athlons that were in the retail casing that could be used.
As far as the two other chips that aren't touching the 'heat spreader' mine didn't either but those are cache chips, 256k each giving a total of 512 cache running at usually 1/2 the clock speed of the CPU, somtimes lower ratio when going to higher speeds.
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