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Masaki Ando
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On thursday night, I removed my Thermaltake Volcano 6Cu+ so I can sell it because of its stupid noise. On friday morning, I was in a hurry to get out, so I just placed the fan back on the CPU without securing the fan onto the socket. Then, voila, my CPU fried in less than a second. Then I had to buy a $130 AMD XP 1700 in a stupid retail package....
Please laugh at me for my stupidity.
But I have few questions... I have a Volcano 5 now, and i accidentally scratched out a little bit of the thermal compound on the bottom of that fan with my fingernail (because i didn't know what it was) Is my processor going to be damaged because of that? Also, the Volcano 5 runs almost silent at first, then it got quite loud (not as loud as V6 Cu+) after the temperature went up to 50deg celcius... why is that?
And, is the fan that comes with the AMD retail CPU any good? (in the noise aspect)
Also, after I boot iinto Windows, anything in the taskbar (include the start button) becomes unresponsive for quite a while but everything else in the Desktop area work fine...anyone knows why?
I have:
AMD XP 1700+
Thermaltake Volcano 5
ASUS A7V266-E
WD ATA100 40GB HDD
WINXP Pro
MSI GF3 Ti200
3COM 3C905B-TX (actual marketing product name unknown)
256MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM
Please laugh at me for my stupidity.
But I have few questions... I have a Volcano 5 now, and i accidentally scratched out a little bit of the thermal compound on the bottom of that fan with my fingernail (because i didn't know what it was) Is my processor going to be damaged because of that? Also, the Volcano 5 runs almost silent at first, then it got quite loud (not as loud as V6 Cu+) after the temperature went up to 50deg celcius... why is that?
And, is the fan that comes with the AMD retail CPU any good? (in the noise aspect)
Also, after I boot iinto Windows, anything in the taskbar (include the start button) becomes unresponsive for quite a while but everything else in the Desktop area work fine...anyone knows why?
I have:
AMD XP 1700+
Thermaltake Volcano 5
ASUS A7V266-E
WD ATA100 40GB HDD
WINXP Pro
MSI GF3 Ti200
3COM 3C905B-TX (actual marketing product name unknown)
256MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM