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How toght do I tighten the nuts on a Thermaltake Silent Tower fitted to an
LGA775 motherboard (Abit AA8-Duramax). My first attempt created a CPU
Voltage check error in POST so I slackened the nuts off a bit, the HSF can
be moved slightly with slippery thermal paste (supplied with the HSF).
However running the board in ABIT's normal mode I still get CPU overheat
beeps

Andi.



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The Thermaltake Silent Tower is no baby HSF that would be wasted on a
Prescott, this things enormous
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers [...] tTower.htm

I was getting 50 debrees C at idle and almost any benchmark would cause a
temp warning after it was fitted.

However it wasn't fitted properly, it's possible to slide the thing from
side to side and I had done just that. Now the heat sink fully covers the
CPU temps are down by about 10 degrees. It will run all my benchmarks at
4Ghz (it's a P4 560 ie 3.6). without a hitch.

Andi.



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"Richard Hopkins" <richh@dsl.nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Andi Cole" wrote in message...
> > How toght do I tighten the nuts on a Thermaltake Silent Tower
> > fitted to an LGA775 motherboard (Abit AA8-Duramax). My first
> > attempt created a CPU Voltage check error in POST
>
> ...In which case you've created a short somewhere. You shouldn't be able
to
> do that simply by tightening a nut; sounds like you've missed out an
> insulator somewhere, or possibly one of the components around the heatsink
> is shorting out. Check closely that everything clears.
>
> > However running the board in ABIT's normal mode I still get
> > CPU overheat beeps
>
> What sort of temperatures are you seeing via uGuru, and what speed are you
> running the fan at? The HSF you have may be called the Silent Tower, but
> don't think you can get away with running a Prescott based system in
> "silent" mode. The heat output of these processors is high enough that
> you'll need a good degree of airflow through the heatsink at all times.
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