CanisEstInVia
Senior member
I have an slk800 that I am using for my barton 2600+ and ecs mobo (from fry's deal). Apparently, my heatsink isn't touching my core completely. It's only touching the edge as evident from the Arctic Silver being untouched on one side. Luckily the chip is neither fried from heat, nor broken from the pressure. It almost like the plastic portion of where the chip goes is too high up. Diagram of what I'm talking about. I even see some arctic silver on the plastic portion that must have scraped from the heatsink.
The first install was ok enough to allow me to install windows. Once I got there, I installed MBM and found out my chip was on fire. I reinstalled the heatsink and got worse results (booting up and checking in bios setup). I reinstalled it again and still. I checked the clip on both sides to make sure theyre in all the way and sitting tight, and they are.
What the hell is up?
edit: plastic tape was removed and i cleaned the bottom in case anyone asks.
The first install was ok enough to allow me to install windows. Once I got there, I installed MBM and found out my chip was on fire. I reinstalled the heatsink and got worse results (booting up and checking in bios setup). I reinstalled it again and still. I checked the clip on both sides to make sure theyre in all the way and sitting tight, and they are.
What the hell is up?
edit: plastic tape was removed and i cleaned the bottom in case anyone asks.
