The parts for a system I am building should be arriving tomorrow. I just want to ask a few things because I have never worked with the athlon 64 before. First of all, the processor I ordered is the 3000+ I will be using the retail heatsink with the processor but I also ordered some arctic silver 5. I read somewhere that the athlon 64 heatsinks still come with a thermal pad. Is it safe to remove this pad and apply the arctic silver 5 instead?
As for the FSB, I guess I just don't understand what they've done to it. I would really like to though so that I know what to do with the fsb of the motherboard/ram. I'm sure there's an article somewhere that explains it but I haven't been able to find one. Is the fsb set by the motherboard completely independant of the cpu now? Is there even a fsb that I can set....the motherboard i ordered is the Asus K8V deluxe.
I'd appreciate any input, thanks.
As for the FSB, I guess I just don't understand what they've done to it. I would really like to though so that I know what to do with the fsb of the motherboard/ram. I'm sure there's an article somewhere that explains it but I haven't been able to find one. Is the fsb set by the motherboard completely independant of the cpu now? Is there even a fsb that I can set....the motherboard i ordered is the Asus K8V deluxe.
I'd appreciate any input, thanks.