Have I found the answer to my problems?

Phonix · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:45 pm

Damnit! I lost my thermal paste. I might have another tube at work but dunno.

EDIT: NVM, found another tube of it in the tickle trunk

Topsecret66 · **Joined:** Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:09 pm **Posts:** 1366

Looks like you're using the right gear.

Once you get a hang of swapping gear so much you statr hack jobbing your old gear.

Heres my lift for the same job

Tube of AS5
Paper Tower
Fantastic Spray Cleaner.

Thats it... lol

Phonix · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:11 pm

Ok so I reseated everything, and put new compound on the cpu. Tidied things up a bit and put it all back together. Still getting these hitches and spikes.

UPDATE!

Now my pc is locking up after 2-3 minutes after boot. It's about to happena gain so i'll make this short. Any suggestions? I did a GREAT job on the paste...

UPDATE 2!

The crashing was due to the southbridge cooler detaching itself. Still getting the fps spikes though..

SOMEONE UPGRADE THEIR AM2+ BOARD AND SELL ME THEIRS! LOL

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:50 pm

MB got the same board me and steve-o got at the moment, a recertified one tho for 149

4x pci-e tickle ya fancy? lol http://www.mysterybyte.com/part/14173/

gtrguy · **Joined:** Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:18 pm **Posts:** 76

How's your case in terms of exhausting warm air? not tucked into a spot under your desk with no air flow? case isn't full of warm air?

a CPU or video card heatsink can only do so much if the internal case temp is high... does your video card exhaust outside the case or into it?

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:13 am

Did you ever try a different motherboard?

Phonix · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:37 am

Case air is good. Got a good air cycle going through it, powered by two 140mm fans, 1 for intake 1 for exhaust.

Steve-o, I haven't been able to try a different mobo cuz frankly there's none to try lol, really wish I could though.

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:11 pm

Well if you wanna try all yer stuff in my Jesus box it's a vanilla M3A with an X3, all it ever does is download stuff and play movies. I just gotta remember where all the wires go if i unplug them...

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:26 pm

Just ditch the Nvidia chipset motherboard already. And stay away from cheap ASUS boards...

Topsecret66 · **Joined:** Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:09 pm **Posts:** 1366

There are a few cheap boards under the 200 range that are real good too.

Phonix · **Posted:** Sat Sep 26, 2009 3:46 am

Real soon boys, real soon.

Money might be tight for the next couple of weeks but I'll definately be finishing up my system upgrades with a new mb.

790GX Crossfire it is then

I want to pay $150 or less for it.

Time to start researching, although I would like to use giga or asrock boards.

We'll see..

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:41 am

Hey Phonix did ya get a new board yet?

Phonix · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:31 pm

Nope I did not. Tomorrow is payday. I'm really tempted, but dunno. I might sell my current board for $30 and put that towards a new board.

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:58 pm

What the make model of the board you are running now? lol I may want that for a build if you are getting rid of it.

Phonix · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:10 pm

Sorry already have a buyer.

I really don't think there's anything wrong with it. I'm just throwing way too much power into it and it can't handle it. It's an Asus M2N-MX SE Plus. Older am2+ board with crappy nforce430 chipset. Cheap as they come. You can get em like 50-65 dollars pretty much anywhere that has a big mobo stock.

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