Recent content by TriStang

Dang, I guess I'm gonna hook up the old heatsink then and go from there. Stupid BTX! :) Again, I really appreciate all the responses. If articcooling does get back to me, I'll let you all know.

Here are a few photo's of the heatsink off the board, one while its on the cpu, and one with an attachment...not sure what else to call it.

Thanks for the responses! I shot off a quick e-mail to ArticCooling to see if they had any adivce. I'm gonna have to look at intel's website tomorrow. I guess if it comes down to it I could put the original heatsink and go from there. I'll keep you guys updated!

Is it safe to run my desktop without the heatsink on? I'm pretty hesitant about that. Yeah, Intel lits the mother board as a microBTX (I've only heard about microATX boards). BTW here is the intel site for what I believe is my mother board...

Oops, forgot those :) Here's a close up of the CPU w/out the heatsink. You can see the 4 screw holes for the heatsink. And here is a general shot of the mother board (a bit messy) Let me know if there's anything else I left out, I don't have to much experience (obviously) with the...

Hey guys, I was wondering if someone could help me out. I have a pretty basic cooling question and a friend of mine pointed me to these forums. A couple days ago my PC overheated, I ordered up a cpu Fan/Heatsink to replace the stock heatsink. I figured this would fix the problem, but it...