my big mistake.

[Admiral Michael]

Ouch, Im glad to hear the comp still works.

 

[zeke_mo]

I would use arctic silver 5 next time it doesnt get hard, its always in a soft form and it works great. You can get the 1cc http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835100007

or the 5cc
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835100008

I got the 5cc and it havent used that much of it, its great stuff and I wouldnt use anything else I put some on my chipset too

EDIT: forgot to mention, if you email asus and tell them that your chipset fan is making noise and such they will send you a replacment free(even shipping) and its quieter and slow, and still gets the job done . Ill search around for the link for the forum my friend found it on.

EDIT EDIT: heres a link for the new chipset fan info
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=50923

 

[Aprox]

What a story man, glad to hear it worked out.

I have read that if you use a .5 mechanical pencil it fits perfectly onto the pins. Great way to bend them straight again. Obviously this only works if they are bent not flat... hehe. You bought a great motherboard its a real work horse, may not be the highest performing ever but its built like a tank and loaded with features.

 

[VenomXt]

thanks Zeke will look into that fan replacment. Everything seems to be working great now besides some memory corruption thing going on at a setting i have them at bumped them back up and been running memtest since this morning see if that fixes it. Kinda looking forward to getting a few games up and running on it.