j.c.f.'s Overclocked Athlon
Project
  
Foam in place. Thermal goop and copper shims in place.
CPU in place. The CPU shouldn't have to compress the foam in order to mate nicely with the
cold plate, if it does then take the CPU off and carve out the offending bit of foam, you
can usually see an impression in the foam's surface where it needs carving.
I chose to use the Athlon's original spring assembly, it
only needed a little drilling out and it puts pressure right where it's needed:
Those nuts gets more lock tight, not much stops them
from spinning as I have put washers between the nuts and the springs. I did mention I was
using a larger fan didn't I?
Actually that large of a fan is probably overkill, it
was actually jammed by a wire and left that way over night when the CPU was running at
500MHz, I was even playing Unreal Tournament for an hour, sheesh. I don't mind using the
big fan however, it happens to be a very quiet fan (I suspect on account of a resistor
that is in series with it). And then I go plug the thing into the FIC SD-11 just to see
how it fits before the case came and oops!
That little white blob under the fan is the ATX power
supply connector. Hmmm, guess I'm gonna be doing a little fan remodelling here:
Sans a corner and complete with a couple of blow holes
for the chipset she's ready. Doesn't look quite as neat as I intended though, too bad:
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Overclocking jig
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