My new rig, thx to sharky and newegg!

[ToMo]

well, its a crappy case I bought when I built my first system, and atm the cover is not on so everything is out in the open. Hopefully I should get my new case in by mid next week so I can see if that helps. I have artic silver ceramique on the die, and I would think my heatsink and fan should be enough to do the job.......I dunno why it should be running that hot compaired to other peoples barton 2500......

[mikeysg]

Have you flashed to the latest bios? I remember when I first got my mobo, the temp reading set off an alarm and I had to shut down . Turns out to that my bios gave a false temp reading (about +15 C more ) I had my bios flashed and the temp dropped from around 55C to 40C (this was with my old NF7-S rev1.0 and a pally 2000+ ) The bios may be giving an inflated temp reading.

[purewire]

Originally posted by ToMo
I just want to thank everyone for all the advice I have gotten here at this board. Lots o nice peeps here, and I just have to say this is the most helpfull pub board I have ever posted on! I am building my rig based mostly on info I found here and from replies to questions I had, not to mention I found out about newegg which just rocks! This is my third and BEST(its not done yet, but I know its gonna smoke ) rig I have ever built. I can't wait till the last of my parts come in on friday!!!!! Thx everyone!

Edit: Btw, doesnt everyone here hate waiting for ordered parts!!!! God the anticipation is killing me lol !

Yeah Sharky's is awesome. Just don't forget to come back everytime you are thinking of buying something, or if something goes wrong. I knew next to nothing before I came here, now I own a 3PC home network, and all are self built.

Yes the anticipation kills me too, I check the tracking obsessively. Like at least 5 times a day.....

[blare is god]

congrats man! your rig sounds awesome

[ToMo]

thanks

Well, I bought my board from excaliburpc and they flashed my bios to the most recent one, 17 i believe it is. I already checked this in sandra. Whenever I get my new case, im gonna try lapping my heatsink and reinstalling it along with a new coat of as ceramique. I hear lapping sometimes will help alot. I noticed when I put my heatsink on, there where 4 indentions in a square slightly bigger than the die. Is that supposed to be there? I just figured that was there to tell me where to apply thermal compound(when you put it on there and then wipe it off to fill the small indentions as per as3 instructions). If anyone has any suggestions, hit me up with a reply, otherwise I will post another topic with my results on my temps with the new case and heatsink installation.