Brand spanking new motherboard, with the northbridge, PWM & southbridge heatsinks intact, time to take those off to have a proper look at what kind of thermal junks being applied. As expected, all three heatsink contact with the chips are via thermal pads. Shots of the motherboard sans heatsinks..
Whilst we're still without the heatsinks, also took some shots of the 4 phase power delivery to the CPU, how this would stand up with there is heavy overclocking will be seen once I start turning up the heat. In the mean time, here what it looks like under the PWM heatsink, pretty darn clean...
After cleaning up the PWM and the Northbridge chips, applied drops of Artic Silver 5 to each respective chip, this would help transfer the heat away from the chips alot better than the factory thermal pads, but caution needs to be excercised, AS5 is a electrically conductive material, hence it shorts out any electrical contact.....kabooi....bye bye motherboard...hello RMA....
Here's a shot of the AS5 on the PWN chips...
So after all that preparation work, slapped back the heatsinks, stuck in the E2160 processor and paired that with a Scythe Ninja monster heatsink. I'm not going to be testing out the graphics on this rig so put in an aging MSI 7900GTO which incidently is able to clock up to GPU 698Mhz with the Memory hitting 1710Mhz, pretty darn niffty from the stock clocks. The whole rig will be powered up by a Cooler Master 550W Real Power Unit.
Final shot of the rig before the powers cranked on...
More to come up...but need to take a break, juggling things between life work and hobby takes a toll on you.
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