Need Assitance w/ AMD CPU Black Knobs!

[Poontos]

Greetings,

I have four black circular knobs on my brand new AMD CPU, on each corner of the chip.

I am about to put on my Chrome ORB fan/heatsink, but I`m not sure if I need to remove
the black rubber knobs.

I've been building Intel based systems for ages, this is my first AMD... yah yah yah...

Specs:

AMD Athlon 900 Socket A
Socket 462 on the Asus A7V133 mobo


Thanks in advance!

 

[Hellblast]

heeey, I got one of those CPUs... hehe.
Anywhoo, I don't think you need to remove those things. They make the heatsink sit evenly on the CPU. I guess they (AMD) introduced those for stability when they introduced that CPU core sticking out from the rest of the unit.

Hellblast

 

[Budman]

DO NOT,I REPEAT DO NOT REMOVE THOSE.

They are there for a reason and should never be removed,if you do your heatsink might wobble & chip a corner of the core while you're installing it.

 

[Poontos]

So far... the consensus is DO NOT remove them. Glad I didn`t.

I have a Chrome Orb CPU fan, just slap it on? No tricks? Or grease?

 

[Poontos]

Ah, thanks. I just confirmed on the AMD site.

 

[Budman]

Use the pad that came with the orb,if there's no pad then yes use Thermal compound.

Whatever you do dont use both at the same time,it's one or the other.

 

[Sundog]

<< chip a corner of the core while you're installing it >>


I seem to remember quite a few people complaining of this.

Here is a link to jonnyGURU's guide to installing-->jonnyGURU speaks!