my buddy just built a 3,000 dollar quad core behemoth and he gave me his old gateway 700. i have a gateway 700 from around the same time and they used the same ram and cpus. i already took both his nice Panasonic pc800 512 ram sticks, but when i went to cannibalize his 3 GHz Pentium 4 (mines only 2.4) i noticed his heat sink was attached to the chip with some sort of alien technology double sided heat conducting tape, and over the years i guess its practically vulcanized the cpu to the heat sink, im afraid if i pry too hard on the chip ill break it. i need the chip separate to latch it down, how the hell do i get the cpu off the heat sink without destroying it?
LOLLOL! Double sided tape. Now there's a bootleg fix that I have never heard of. Pry that sucker off. What have you got to lose?
apparently it was "thermal tape". the internet told me to slide a razor between the two, i did this. unfortunatly i didnt heed the internets other instruction which was to do it over a soft surface, i didnt, the cpu went flying, and i ended up having to carefully bend pins back into place. and after all that it turns out his cpu was only 2.5ghz, ha! all that for nothing! he might have been overclocking...
thermaltake armor case with 25cm fan, evga nvidia nforce 680i sli atx motherboard, core 2 extreme 2.6 ghz cpu overclocked to 2.9, geforce 8800 gtx 768mb 384bit pci express sli card, coolmax atx 700w ps, 4gb gskill sdram, liteon 20x dvd dl burner lightscribe, seagate barracuda 7200 rpm 320gb hd, vista 64bit ultimate for system builders, dual booted with 32 bit. thing has like 7 fans, all spinning and not spinning randomly depending on whats getting hot in his pc, kinda funny. he makes programs that analyze derivatives for a living, its like a ferrari to him.
Impressive Ferrari of a machine. And he gave you his old Chevy, but it would have moved up to a Ford, had it actually been a 3GHz CPU. A darned nice friend, anyway.
Just wait until it explodes in a shower of sparks and flames. He used a coolmax power supply, tell him to get rid of it. NOW
^ i told him but he said that if they really did randomly explode and cause fires there would be recalls and lawsuits, he thinks peoples power supplys blow up because people dont install or use them correctly. hes worked at some serious IT departments so i guess he knows what hes doing.
I am with sam on this one, I used to have a cheap "made in china" PSU, but it blew up twice, and it took my mobo, and my ram with it...
well ill tell him again, is there some sort of special version of this power supply that DOESNT suck? i find it odd that he would buy litteraly the best cpu and graphics card money can buy (in spring 07) and power it with a ps that is known to catch fire. like i said he keeps the case cold as ice he has the little widget with all the temps and the memory stats and fan controls, he has power included in his rent so it doesnt matter if he has most of the fans going, and is usuing it all the time, but i guess that might just make his ps catch fire faster, haha.
It's just coolmax in general, go with a decent brand like Corsair, Thermaltake, Seasonic, Antec, PC Power & cooling, Tagan etc. People like that. If in doubt, ask here first.
