Heatsink to AMD Virgin

[Guest]

Hello all... I am new at the game of Installing the Heatsink to a CPU. My interest is to Buy a MSI Master-S 6341 and Install a Noise Control Silverado or Taisol Cooler to an AMD 1333. No sites on Priceline.com offer this MB and CPU as a combo unit, so I may be stuck doing an install alone. I heard there are very real risks installing the heatsink (Cracking CPU, Too much Goop, Not enough Goop) Can anyone give re-assurance this is not rocket Science? Any comments are well recieved...Thanks

 

[Guest]

Well I was looking for a combo, but I couldn't afford it and afraid of Installing the mobo and CPU and HSF myself, but I had to. And I will say this, everything went fine, I got a thin layer of Thermal Compound, and the only problem I ran into was I had to flip the HSF because of some capasitor's that were in the way (My mobo isn't the K7 Master) but yeah it was really easy.

 

[paulcalmond]

It is fairly easy to install a heatsink, for detailled instructions on the general procedure see this link
<A HREF="http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/pdf/23986.pdf" target="_new">http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/pdf/23986.pdf</A>

It is to an Adobe PDF file on AMD's web site that explains the procedure, with pictures of the right (and wrong) way of doing things

Hope this is some help to you

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the update on this. I think I will go ahead and check out that AMD site and do some reading.
Regards, laxdaniel