How my CPU fused to my heatsink

[Glirk Dient]

do you know if there is any way of paying with a credit card instead of paypal? I talked to some guy over the phone and he said he coudlnt accept a credit card....but that was the vancouver office....so im not sure if any of them are different


Edit: Damn, they dont accept from US. I came up with this at buyXG......little more expensive and not the case i want, but oh welll


Case :X-Discovery Mid-Tower Case 420W W/ WINDOW & LCD Temperature Display (Black Color)
CPU : (939-pin) AMD Athlon™64 X2 4400+ Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology
Mainboard : (Sckt939)ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe nForce4 SLI Chipset SATA RAID Dual PCIE MB w/Gb-LAN,USB2.0,IEEE-1394,&7.1Audio
Memory : 2048 MB (1GBx2) PC3200 400MHz Dual Channel DDR MEMORY (Corsair XMS High Performance Memory w/ Heat Spreader)
Video Card : NEW! NVIDIA Geforce 7900 GTX 512MB 16X PCI Express Video Card
Hard Drive : 250GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8M Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive
Optical Drive : (Special Price) LG GWA-4161 16X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)
Sound : HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

Dont worry about all these asshats. You can build your own comp. It seems daunting at first but if you take it one step at a time you will have yourself a computer much better than if you bought one and you will enjoy it 10x more and understand how it works and what to do when it breaks and how to upgrade it. No more paying punks at best buy $50 to install a new stick of RAM!

As for your current setup it looks pretty good. Still need a power supply though. Go with something from enermax or Antec. Both are very good trusted suppliers. Don't skimp on the power supply either...bad power supplies can lead to a huge array of problems. If you get one of those 2 brands, it should be good.

Also you could get a smaller but faster HD if you don't need all of that space. Western Digital makes some excellent gaming hard drives.

Don't forget to get a good heatsink/fan for you mobo as well as some thermal gel. Artic Silver works wonders. Just put a little bit on, about the size of a grain of rice onto the processor after you put it in the socket then put the heatsink on top of that. It will squish the thermal gel down and spread it out.

Also pick up a few fans for your case to keep things cool.

Oh and for some coolness factor. www.frozencpu.com has some awsome wired power supplies. I got an enermax one with UV orange sleeving for the wires and I also picked up 2 UV cold cathodes.

Here is what it looks like if your feeling ambitious and wanna go that route. http://img393.imageshack.us/my.php?image=comp0013ok.jpg

 

[Tyguy]

Thats right. Someone that couldn't turn his mouse light thinks YOU are stupid. Owch.

Try to at least learn something about stuff you want to comment on / ask about / do, before you open your mouth.

PS- a mobo keeping power to externals when the PC is off is quite common, I just wanted to stop it doing that. All done now! You on the the other hand, sound like you can't work a spoon.

Whats the point of this forum, could it be providing help to people with questions who might not know everything about computers? WEIRD.....I know you like logging on and acting smart, but your knowledge of computers doesnt make you cool. Maybe it does in your 9th grade C++ class, but outside of that, not really. So maybe try not being a complete ahole and if someone asks a question that may be obvious to you, but confusing to someone else, try helping them, instead of being a smart ass. And I can work a spoon, i used one tonight at dinner......as wel as a fork....but im still trying to get a knife working

 

[Barney Fife]

Whats the point of this forum, could it be providing help to people with questions who might not know everything about computers? WEIRD.....I know you like logging on and acting smart, but your knowledge of computers doesnt make you cool. Maybe it does in your 9th grade C++ class, but outside of that, not really. So maybe try not being a complete ahole and if someone asks a question that may be obvious to you, but confusing to someone else, try helping them, instead of being a smart ass. And I can work a spoon, i used one tonight at dinner......as wel as a fork....but im still trying to get a knife working

Fikin Lol...Thats the spirit.

But guys, it would be nice to knock it off and take deep breath and give each other a hug and say you sorry.


Wha ya say? huh?