Okay, please I hope someone here can help.
First off, I'm a sales manager at a local computer store. I had my purchasing manager order me a Xeon/board/memory combination from one of our distributors. I've been building systems and doing hardware for almost 11 years, so I'm not a newb, atleast from my own perspective.
Anyways, I get the stuff in on Friday, take it home, and get ready to piece together a server for a client of mine. Didn't even open the box of stuff until this morning. Now because I primarily build AMD, and hardly deal with Intel, much less Intel Xeons... I have a serious question..
The Asus PC-DL board has mounting instructions that involve a backplate being flush on the back of the board, then a heatsink retention bracket being affixed. Once that's done, you slide the heatsink to the bracket and clip it down. Then a fan is affixed to the top of the HS.
However, my Xeon installation instructions are saying that backplate w/ **SPRINGS* should be flush underneath the board. (my backplates from my PC-DL do not have springs)
Then it says, screw down the heatsink/fan into the spring standoffs on the plate.
My Xeon doesn't come with a retention bracket like the one in the Asus manual. It came with a one piece HSF combo (Intel's active hs) The one inthe Asus manual has a windtunnel attachment that the fan mounts on top of. Mine more resembles the 775 hsf.
Wtf is going on...The board also is a 533 and my chip is the 800 which automatically had me thinking someone got mismatched prior to shipping..
Are there two types of Xeon processors that are the same socket? Well lemme rephrase that...
Do the 533 and 800mhz FSB Xeons have different mounting backplates and heatsinks? It looks like the 533 has the clipdown HS with the fan attachment and the 800 has a one piece setup that screws down w/ some springy screws through the hs.
First off, I'm a sales manager at a local computer store. I had my purchasing manager order me a Xeon/board/memory combination from one of our distributors. I've been building systems and doing hardware for almost 11 years, so I'm not a newb, atleast from my own perspective.
Anyways, I get the stuff in on Friday, take it home, and get ready to piece together a server for a client of mine. Didn't even open the box of stuff until this morning. Now because I primarily build AMD, and hardly deal with Intel, much less Intel Xeons... I have a serious question..
The Asus PC-DL board has mounting instructions that involve a backplate being flush on the back of the board, then a heatsink retention bracket being affixed. Once that's done, you slide the heatsink to the bracket and clip it down. Then a fan is affixed to the top of the HS.
However, my Xeon installation instructions are saying that backplate w/ **SPRINGS* should be flush underneath the board. (my backplates from my PC-DL do not have springs)
Then it says, screw down the heatsink/fan into the spring standoffs on the plate.
My Xeon doesn't come with a retention bracket like the one in the Asus manual. It came with a one piece HSF combo (Intel's active hs) The one inthe Asus manual has a windtunnel attachment that the fan mounts on top of. Mine more resembles the 775 hsf.
Wtf is going on...The board also is a 533 and my chip is the 800 which automatically had me thinking someone got mismatched prior to shipping..
Are there two types of Xeon processors that are the same socket? Well lemme rephrase that...
Do the 533 and 800mhz FSB Xeons have different mounting backplates and heatsinks? It looks like the 533 has the clipdown HS with the fan attachment and the 800 has a one piece setup that screws down w/ some springy screws through the hs.
No biggie, it was a little lengthy, but since my business on the side is running full steam, I'll be posting here alot more, as well as having plenty of hardware to sell or trade. Just wanted to put a little something out there.
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