Athlon XP2400+ installation query????? 1

[m1ckG]

I have recently purchased an Athlon XP2400+ with Nvidia K7N2 Delta series main board. Using a cool master heat sink/fan. The first chip i used appeared to be faulty, sent said chip back. Bought another Athlon XP2400+ it appears that the heat sink/fan purchsed has damaged the chip upon fitting. I was wondering if any one else had come across this problem before??, my first time building an athlon PC.

All help appreciated

Thanks in advance.

 

[rockerfellerz]

If you aren't carefull attaching the heatsink, and "rock" it to one side to attach the clip and then rock it to the other side to connect that clip, it is easy to chip the die, which is the bit of silicon where all the transistors are.
If this has happened most likely it's toast! There are shims available which sit on top of the processor in between it and the heatsink, they are supposed to stop this from happening, and go for about 10 bucks....

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RocKeRFelLerZ

 

[m1ckG]

Thanks you are right the chip is toast lets hope when i send it back they dont realise what a peanut i am. Cant believe i forgot about the shims.

Thanks one for the mental book.

 

[rockerfellerz]

You're welcome.

If you're going through Hell...keep going... (Winston Churchill)
RocKeRFelLerZ

 

[paparazi]

Whilst there is indeed an art to fitting the heatsink to a Duron/Athlon processor I have never seen the need to fit a shim.
As a system builder I fit anything between 5 and 25 heatsinks a day to socket A processors and have never chipped a core.
I realise that to the first time builder the heatsink fitment can appear a little scary and it is usually the indecisiveness of the fitment, "having several stabs" so to speak, plus the wrong tools that lead to core damage, if in dought let the supplying shop fit it for FREE.


Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.

 

[lwspann]

Go to the AMD website, they have a good set of instructions on fitting cooler to the cpu.