Processor upgrade

Thanks Sparrow and Mattman,
One more question before I get started. lol

Do I need to buy thermal interface material or will it already be on the cpu or motherboard?

Thanks for helping!

Sal

 

Thermal interface material is on the bottom of the heat sink and looks like a small patch. There's a clear plastic cover, over the whole bottom of the sink, to remove, that protects it in shipping. There's also a small ledge or step on the heat sink that should match the step on the socket when attached. Make sure the sink is on straight, not at even a small angle. Eyeballing it is good enough. You need not buy anything more. Warnings about replacing the compound after removing the sink from the athlon apply after power has been applied, not during construction.

Don't apply power until you are at the stage that you have the memory, a floppy drive (or CD/DVD drive) and the VGA and monitor and keyboard installed, and then go right to the BIOS (del key) and snoop around to check things out. You can get out of the BIOS if you feel you might have changed something and have a change of heart by the three finger salute (ctrl-alt-del) .

Another thing: it's OK to remove the power supply (just 4 bolts in back) during inserting the mobo to get room to work.

 

Thanks Sparrow, I was looking at the heat sink this morning and saw the patch, just wanted to be sure.

Thanks for for being patient and answering all my questions.

Sal

 

Thanks Sparrow and Mattman

Finished installing everything a little while ago. Seems to be working fine

Went thru the bios and changed a couple of things,set agp video to 128 instead of 64. I guess it meant how many megs my video card was. And it was set to pci and I changed it to agp.

Also the switch's on the mb were set to default (100 mhz) changed them to 166 mhz. I think that was about it for changes.

I downloaded Everest, real neat program, that's where I noticed that I forgot to change the switch's on the mb. It said mb was 100mhz and cpu was running at about 1.2 after changing switch's cpu was a little over 2.0.

I would never have been able to do this without your help. I've learned a lot doing this. You guys are great!


Thanks,
Sal

 

Good work! Thanks for posting back.