Time to upgrade some components

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Arclight

We will miss waiting for your game to load.

[Oberon]

It arrived today! Alas, the CPU was not fitted to the mobo like I thought it would be, so I will have to do that myself, which means I'll have to wait for Nagy to get home from work so I can steal some of his thermal paste.

[Oberon]

Nagy has misplaced his thermal paste but it would appear that it is not necessary. Looks like the mobo has a clip type arrangement to hold the CPU in, first time I've seen such a thing but I haven't seen a new mobo in a decade.

Anyway, before I could be cheerful about it, I tried to put the RAM from the current mobo into the new mobo...





It would seem that my current RAM is DDR2...

So, back to square one until next payday...next month.

[Arclight]

Dude, you really need thermal paste/grease. If it is a boxed CPU, one that comes with cooler, there might already be a pre-applied pad on the bottom of the cooler.

Not the best quality, but it will do for standard application.


No surface is perfectly smooth, and air is an insulator. The grease serves to fill the (microscopic) gaps between the CPU and heatsink.

[Oberon]

It could well be on the bottom of the cooler, there is a strange pad like design on it, however I've put it to one side and I will look at it again next month after I have the RAM to put into it. Perhaps sooner, don't know yet. Hopefully by then Nagy will have found his thermal paste and we can put that in.

[Castout]

Yeah Oberon you need the thermal paste as it connects the CPU to the heat sink! Otherwise they are not connected directly and probably needs to go through gap which means air and this eventually will fry your CPU because the heat won't distribute to the heat sink.

[Skybird]

Sorry to hear about your delay, Oberon. Hope you can work it out quickly. Such disappointments suck.

Keep going!

[Oberon]

So, it's my birthday pretty shortly, as a part of my birthday present my mother got me some RAM and some thermal paste. They both came today.
Pulled the old mobo out, put the new one in, fitted the CPU and followed the instructions to wire everything back up. Found a couple of wires that had nowhere to go but the main wires were in. Plugged it in, pressed the on button.

Nothing.

Moved a few wires about, tried again.

Nothing.

Gave up and called Nagy who has a lot more experience with this than me, he came around and had a look, firstly the DVD is now out of commission because it's too old for the mobo, so I'll need to pick up a SATA DVD drive sometime soon, then he discovered that the plug from the on/off switch at the front isn't the right type for the mobo, and that the PSU wasn't giving enough power to start the mobo up.



So, he's taken it back to his and will hopefully be able to rig up a PSU from one he has already and then get the On/Off switch plug sorted.

The trials and tribulations of putting modern components in an old tower system. Still...just have to be patient for now.

[Jan Kyster]

Originally Posted by Oberon

It could well be on the bottom of the cooler, there is a strange pad like design on it..

That is the thermal paste. And it's perfectly adequate

Originally Posted by Oberon

...firstly the DVD is now out of commission because it's too old for the mobo...

That is just plain silly. Of course your mb has an IDE slot.

Originally Posted by Oberon

the plug from the on/off switch at the front isn't the right type for the mobo

That doesn't make sense either.

Standard types...

Originally Posted by Oberon

the PSU wasn't giving enough power to start the mobo up.

What? Didn't you update your mb only? How many Watts is the PSU?

But good luck!

[Arclight]

I'm guessing the old PSU doesn't have the 24-pin plug for the motherboard and might be lacking the one going to the CPU.

* and indeed the IDE connector seems to be missing.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Jan Kyster

That is the thermal paste. And it's perfectly adequate

Well, there's more now just to be sure.

That is just plain silly. Of course your mb has an IDE slot.

This one doesn't.

That doesn't make sense either.

Standard types...

My plug is a combined version of all three of those, well...without the reset sw because the front doesn't have a reset switch. But it does have a HD 'working' light.

What? Didn't you update your mb only? How many Watts is the PSU?

This was an old mobo that I have upgraded from, but we shall see. No idea on the Wattage of the PSU, I didn't buy the machine the other half did and she brought it with her when she moved in.

But good luck!

Thanks, I'm hoping that this will be the last of the hurdles.

Originally Posted by Arclight

I'm guessing the old PSU doesn't have the 24-pin plug for the motherboard and might be lacking the one going to the CPU.

The PSU has a four point plug for the mobo, but the mobo needs an eight pointer, it has enough power to put the little light on the mobo on, but not enough to actually get it all running. I'm just hoping Nagy has been able to find his PSU and rig it up.

[Oberon]

I've just received word from home that Nagy has got the machine going. When I finish work tonight, she will be getting her first test run.

Nagy is a legend

[Arclight]

Oh good, then I can do this:

Originally Posted by Oberon

[Gargamel]

Recently while shopping for a new Mobo (just pricing, never bought), I found quite a few that had 4 SATA, and no IDE. Apparently it's becoming an option that you must request/search out, and not a standard option anymore.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Arclight

Oh good, then I can do this:

You could have done that anyway, I'd have just waited for our next ARMA2 mission and...accidentally...drop a load of M799 HEI on you.

As it is though, I think I'll just shoot Spud instead. Just because.