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nuxxx wrote: »

Its only been 4 days and nothing would have of happened over the weekend

You`ll have it by Thurs/Friday or so I`d imagine

ugh

waiting is killing me, iv no patience

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Got this email from DHL Germany

Dear customer,

thank you for your request.

After the shipment has left Germany, local Post of Ireland is responsible for delivery and data transmission, not DHL.


The parcel left Germany on 26.02.2011 going to Ireland.
General running time for your parcel is 3 business days.

Due to increased security measures in Europe, there is currently significant delays.

In case your parcel does not arrive at the recipient until 04.03.2011 please contact the sender and request an investigation.

Im intrigued to know what security measures they are talking about.

Casillas

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Im intrigued to know what security measures they are talking about.

Probaly has to do with the parcel bombs Greek anarchists sent all over Europe

jayteecork

Sorry about this stupid question but do hardwareversand put everything together for you?

Thanks.

IrishMetalhead

Yea they offer a full assembly service for €20 apart from large graphic cards, large heatsinks (which you have to fit yourself) or any os installation (os and drvier installation service costs€35 on hwvs)
Probably better off looking for someone local to put it together if not then pay hwvs to do it for you.

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Got my beast today (my nickname for it)

Lads any helpful walkthough of installing the CPU Cooler: Corsair A70 ?

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2 pics of the inside

dwighet

Headshot wrote: »

Got my beast today (my nickname for it)

Lads any helpful walkthough of installing the CPU Cooler: Corsair A70 ?

This is for the a50 but same principal

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dwighet wrote: »

This is for the a50 but same principal

thanks for that dwighet but im just wondering somthing

if you look at my pics, there's a fan over the cpu already

dwighet

Headshot wrote: »

thanks for that dwighet but im just wondering somthing

if you look at my pics, there's a fan over the cpu already

mate that fan has to come off and then you must clean the cpu and install your new cooler

look for 4 plastic pins/clips that hold the stock cooler inplace and release them.Then you will see a small steel clamp that holds the cpu inplace...release that. and carefully remome the stock cooler and the cpu will come off as well as the cooler.. Then seperate the cpu from the cooler carefully.... clean the original heat paste off the cpu and renistall it(carefully) then clamp it down and apply your new heat paste and cooler.....

If you get stuck pm me your mobile and I will try to talk you through it....its not hard...just take your time....

IrishMetalhead

It's an AMD cooler it won't have the plastic pins on it it'll have that metal clip thing thats all you need to do to remove it because the A70 uses AMD's stock mouting bracket.
Just read the installation instructions that came with the A70 and you should be grand just remember that it should sucking cold air from the bottom =D

Headshot

so somthing like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ZzRudA-zM

IrishMetalhead

yup thats more or less how ya do it just don't forget you thermal paste

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well im finished and here is some pics and a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv8nbosn6os

basically pics are asking is that alright for the cooler to be that high up, that close to the ram and that close to the back of the case?

Also is the cpu suppose to be absolutely stiff or can it shake?

Im worried about the Thermal compound in terms of did I use the right amount

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I forgot to add

The original fan used a 4 pin where as the a70 uses a three pin, since I cant find anymore 3 pins connections, it has to be the right one

basically there's only one 3 pin connector and iv used it for the A70

edit also

do I have the fans on the right direction and on the fan in the back (near the case) there's arrows saying

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> \/ (right and and forward)

IrishMetalhead

don't worry you can plug a 3pin into the 4pin cpu header and there should be a adapater to join the two fans to one header aswell so you don't need any fan headers on your mobo and to make sure the fans are facing away just use a small piece of light paper to see what way the airflow is going

btw you only need a thin layer of thermal compound so don't worry about that too much

dwighet

you must have it fired up by now and a cold beer in your hand....fair play...:)

jayteecork

Headshot let us know how you're getting on with it in a few days or so.

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I wish I could see it going

its not turning on for me

Hank Scorpio

Headshot wrote: »

I wish I could see it going

its not turning on for me

Did you plug the power adapter from the psu into the motherboard? They didn't plug mine in either

Something like this



There might be a powerswitch on the psu aswell, at the back of the case

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thanks for the reply Nuxxx

the "power adapter from the psu into the motherboard" could be in im not sure

the cable looks like its in but I cant see unless I lift up the cooler but the cable goes from the psu to the motherboard (you can see it in the video there) but I cant be sure is it plugged in but I would think so

IrishMetalhead

if the 8pin power wasn't plugged in it'll still power up but the cpu won't so i don't think thats it could be a case of just unplugging and replugging the 24 power

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actually I think this is what your talking about Nuxxx

IrishMetalhead

yea the detacable 4pin secton (left side of the 24pin) dosn't appear to be sitting in it propally best unplugging it and plugging it back in

Headshot

No luck metal, the picture was misleading, it was in fine but I still unplugged it and replugged it back in

Hank Scorpio

Not trying to be smart but have you definately flicked the switch at the back of the power supply. Theres an on/off button

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nuxxx wrote: »

Not trying to be smart but have you definately flicked the switch at the back of the power supply. Theres an on/off button

sure have, the I/O

Headshot

im using the cable from my printer in the back of the computer, not sure does that make a difference. it strictly says 230v

Hank Scorpio

Maybe borrow one tomorrow to be sure, I bet its something simple like that

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and god said let their be power

bingo we have power, I think it was the cables fault.

I hope I have the fans on the right way thou. The air is blowing in front and the air is coming in from the top
ie the air is blowing onto the graphics card

sounds right if you ask me


(btw thanks metal and Nuxxx for bearing with me )

IrishMetalhead

nope not the right way round actually the air is meant to to blowing out from the top :O

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IrishMetalhead wrote: »

nope not the right way round actually the air is meant to to blowing out from the top :O

ugh

life is never easy

IrishMetalhead

going to sort it out now or just leave it till tomorrow?

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IrishMetalhead wrote: »

going to sort it out now or just leave it till tomorrow?

now

Im one of these fellas that once I start a job I have to have it done right away

so metal about these fans, im not sure about them

IrishMetalhead

Just to make sure this is the way the airflow is supose to go

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so the black fan that is facing out (one with the things sticking out at the corner) so that goes below the cpu cooler and the other goes beside the case

that right ?

IrishMetalhead

yep the one on the bottom should be blowing air through the heatsink while the one at the top of the case should be blowing out hot air out of the top of the case so it's just a case of swapping the fans around because the actual heatsink it self is the right way round

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So iv that swapped over

the one beside the case is slightly higher than the the other if you get me. Somthing is stopping it going down any further but all is working perfectly

So i think that's all metal ?

IrishMetalhead

it's upside down i think cause i expierienced that exact same problem when i was installing an a50 for a client.
the fan cable should be coming out from the bottom not the top that could be the problem.

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IrishMetalhead wrote: »

it's upside down i think cause i expierienced that exact same problem when i was installing an a50 for a client.
the fan cable should be coming out from the bottom not the top that could be the problem.

its the thing that locks in the cpu cooler thats causing it

I dont think it will make a difference will it ?

IrishMetalhead

ohh may be the heatsink itself could be long way round then =s

plus it would make a massive difference because heat rises so the case is designed so the air flows that way so it's pulling cool air from the bottom and excausting it out the top but having the cpu cooler mounted the way round like yours is pulling blow in the opasit direction of the airflow and completely disrupting not to meantion it would be blow hot air onto you expensive gpu :O

Headshot

god i starting to hate this computer stuff :pac:

if I take up the cpu cooler, do i have to redo the rubbing alcohol on the cpu and cooler?

IrishMetalhead

nope that should be still grand just need to take it off and turn it around

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IrishMetalhead wrote: »

nope that should be still grand just need to take it off and turn it around

ill give it a shot metal, thanks again for all the help, I wouldnt beable to do it without ya

IrishMetalhead

not a problem mate =D
let me know how you get on with that

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iv given up metal, iv tried each way , changed the lock bar to the other side too

but it doesnt matter the lock bar hinders the fans

IrishMetalhead

well your not overclocking it atm so your just better off fitting the stock heatsink and fit the a70 another time maybe get someone in your area to help you out with it

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IrishMetalhead wrote: »

well your not overclocking it atm so your just better off fitting the stock heatsink and fit the a70 another time maybe get someone in your area to help you out with it

driving me nuts what im doing wrong tbh

its probably the simplistic thing too

Ill get someone else to do it for me, I dont have the patience for it

thanks again for the help

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This is the problem im having



left hand side is pissing me off

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Im happy to report I finally got the system going thanks to a computer shop

Got home and installing windows at the moment but im having trouble trying to get the internet going on it

I plug the cable in to the back of computer and the lights comes on but looking at the desktop, there's a big X on the the computer symbol at the Right hand corner of the destop

Any idea what's wrong folks ?