Incompatible heatsink?

[symphonicfinale]

My holly motherboard does not have the heat sink brackets which i think you need in order to install a fm1 socket heat sink. My p6 2100 has the heatsink clamped down by screws it seems. How would I install the new heat sink for the amd a8-3850? Here is a picture of my motherboard -

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...t.jsp?objectID=c03143256&prodSeriesId=5187028

 

[4ghz]

It looks like you may be out of luck. Normally I would say buy the bracket off ebay. But your mounting points seem way off from the standard am/fm points.

 

[symphonicfinale]

It looks like you may be out of luck. Normally I would say buy the bracket off ebay. But your mounting points seem way off from the standard am/fm points.

Crap. Well I suppose I could just use the old heatsink?

 

[JWade]

measure them, you may find out that they are the same size/spacing of a 775 or 1150 heatsink mounting holes. found that in a lot of amd hp systems where the cooler mounting holes where the same as intel 775 cooler mounting holes.