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Questions regarding the installation of NVSilencer and XP-90

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Boris teh Spider

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I made a thread about this in General Hardware and got no replies so I figured this might be a more appropriate place to ask.

I am pretty sure I understand the insallation of the NVSilencer 5 Rev 3 on my 7800GT, but that little barb thing that holds the power connector for the fan into the card is next to impossible to remove. Does anyone have any tips on how to remove this? The directions reccommend a needle but this just caused a bunch of headaches...

Also with the installtion of an XP-90 on and EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra, is it nessecary to remove the motherboard? I have heard that the mounting bracket that the XP-90 uses requires it to be screwed into the backplate, so do I have to take the entire motherboard out to get this thing on?

One last question regarding the removal of the stock heatsink; I have heard that it is best to use a hairdryer on the heatsink before you remove it to weaken the bond that the thermal paste has between the processor and the heatsink to prevent ripping the CPU out of the socket. Anyone tried this? I also found this movie with instructions on how to remove the heatsink, does this sound like it works? http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_ty...move-LowRes.wmv I noticed he removed the mounting bracket (or at least unscrewed it), wouldn't this cause the backplate to fall off?

Sorry for my stupid questions but any help would be great.
 
Bump. Hasn't anyone who has installed an XP-90 on an AMD motherboard tell me if you have to remove it before installing? Anyone have any tips on how to get the little bard out of the fan connector for the video card. I am pretty sure I understand how to remove the heatsink now, but some people say pull straight up and don't rock it because then if the processor is ripped out of the socket you will have less chance of damaging pins, while others say rock it gently back and forth before pulling off to break the seal. I am probably going to rock it before pulling it off.
 
I dont know about the epox board but when i installed my xp-90 i didnt have to remove the mobo. I think the only reason for that is if you have a pentium 4 proc and then i think u need a special bracket instead of the bracket that comes packaged with the mobo.
 
1. i broke off a piece of the tab when installing the NV Silencer onto my XFX 7800GT 🙂

2. Hair dryer helps to remove the HSF, and just follow the directions in the video. The backplate should not fall off since I think there's some adhesive to attatch it to the mobo anyway.
 
Yes you need the motherboard removed for the back plate unless you have it attached to the motherboard somehow. It would be somewhat difficult to screw in the retention bracket having the motherboard in the case already.
 
Thanks for the input. I asked someone in the thread concerning my motherboard, the EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra, and they said they installed the XP-90 just fine with the mobo in the case, so I guess I will try this and hopefully it should work. Hopefully the adhesive will hold up. BTW: Got the Silencer on sucessfully with the help of a needle-nose pliers.
 
I am using the XP-90 with an EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra MB. You do not need a back plate with this MB and you do not have to remove it from your case. Just remove the 2 screws that hold down the stock RM, remove it, and replace it with the Thermalright RM and screws. Takes about 2 minutes.

Use the Thermalright paste that came with the XP-90. I found no difference in temps between it and AS5.
 
Yep just installed it with the Thermalright paste. In a review it scored less than 1C above AS Ceramique or AS5 forget which one but anway... So right now I have lowered my processors OC back down to stock speeds, 2Ghz on my 3800+. Anyway because of this weird mobo I am running just about the same voltage as before, around 1.45 but it bounces up a bit to 1.47 and occasionally all the way up to 1.49, previously it was running at mostly 1.48 and some 1.49 occasionally. Anyway it's at 35C idle right now, and the sotck cooler idled at 35 when OC'd to 2.4, granted the volts were pretty similar. Anyway, I am planning on raising it back up to 2.4 and hopefully beyond once the paste cures, but I am just wondering if this is a normal temp. Actually just dropped to 34 so maybe it's working. Just wanted to be sure I didn't do anything wrong with the applying of the thermal paste or anything. I used the dot in the middle trick and Thermalright said to spread it out but I figured it wouldn't matter since it has rougly the same viscosity as AS5. How long should I wait for the paste to cure before trying to OC again?
 
Oh yeah also forgot to mention, I installed the cooler so that the protruding fin side was facing towards my RAM. Was this the correct way to do it or does it not matter?
 
Crap I got another one, I put the fan so it was blowing downwards, but the wires are poking out from under the fan, and they got inbetween gaps in the fins of the XP-90. I don't really want to pinch one of these wires as that might roast my CPU, but I am assuming they will be fine since they go inbetween the gaps in the fins.
 
It doesn't really matter which way the fins are extending over. for my mobo i had to face the hs over the ram because i have some capacitators that would interfere with the heatsink on the other side
 
I just put the fins over the RAM because some people were saying it helped to cool them down more, which doesn't really make any sense to me but it works. Idle temps have dropped 2C from the time I installed the heatsink, is this the thermal compound settling in?
 
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