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Taking heatsink off CPU

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ArrizX

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Well, friend sold me a POS mobo and I need to take off my CPU and Heatsink. But now the heatsink is stuck to it since I locked it down. How does it come off with out hurting it?

I am afraid I just ruined a Phenom 965.
 
Well box says Biostar TA790GX A3+. But its... not. Because on the board it in very small letters says Am2+, and only supports DDR2 memory.

It was only a temp board till I got a 790 series. But oh well.

Sorry I made te thread, I got it off. Did a quick google and twisted it off. I was kinda in a panic though.. ha.


I will need new motherboard suggestions though, and I am going to spring for as good as one as I need.
 
Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI all make good boards. I would suggest going with one of those brands.

What are you looking for in your motherboard? Obviously, an AM3 DDR3 motherboard. But what else? Do you need SLI or Crossfire? USB3.0? SATA6? For none of these, the 785G or 770 chipset should work fine for you. For SLI, there's really only two choices, the MSI NF750 and NF980. The NF750 has dual SLI, while the NF980 has tri-SLI. For Crossfire, there's the 790X series, which include 790X, 790GX, and 790FX. The 790X and 790GX have dual Crossfire, while the 790FX have quad Crossfire. The 890GX is the same as the 790GX, except it has SATA6 and USB3.0. The 890FX is the same as the 790FX with SATA6 and USB3.0. For just SATA6 and USB3.0, you can probably go with the 870 or 880G chipset. The G denotion indicates onboard graphics if that matters to you.
 
I dont need Sli or Xfire. I also dont need SATA 6 or USB3.0 (i dont think enough stuff supports it yet to need it, correct?)

With that in mind what would you reccomend?

The rest of the computer is as follows:
Phenom X4 965
500GB Samsun F3
1TB Samsung F3
7600GT KO video card (no games, just dual 1080p monitors)
4GB HyperX DDr3 1333 memory
 
ArrizX said:
I dont think I want to go with MSI now. I was set on this board, untill two new reviews came in saying the Computer only sees the processor as AM2+.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130275

Thats a bunch of crap. I dont know whats with MSI on that one, so I think I would rather try ASUS or Gigabyte.
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As far as I can remember, the only difference between AM2+ and AM3 is that AM3 supports DDR3. If so, then If the board takes DDR3, it's AM3, whether it reports as such or not.

Also, I'm not aware of any place in Windows 7 (what one of the reviewers stated) that reports what socket your system is using, so it may just be that whatever software those people are using hasn't been updated to correctly report an AM3 processor and just spits out AM2+.
 
Well the board I have doesnot support DDR3, so there is an answer it itsself.
 
Tsumi said:
Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI all make good boards. I would suggest going with one of those brands.

What are you looking for in your motherboard? Obviously, an AM3 DDR3 motherboard. But what else? Do you need SLI or Crossfire? USB3.0? SATA6? For none of these, the 785G or 770 chipset should work fine for you. For SLI, there's really only two choices, the MSI NF750 and NF980. The NF750 has dual SLI, while the NF980 has tri-SLI. For Crossfire, there's the 790X series, which include 790X, 790GX, and 790FX. The 790X and 790GX have dual Crossfire, while the 790FX have quad Crossfire. The 890GX is the same as the 790GX, except it has SATA6 and USB3.0. The 890FX is the same as the 790FX with SATA6 and USB3.0. For just SATA6 and USB3.0, you can probably go with the 870 or 880G chipset. The G denotion indicates onboard graphics if that matters to you.
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I must say think you for this post. It guided me into this motherboard, which I plan to purchase in the next couple minutes as with some thermal paste.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131402
 
Well, whatever it says in Windows 7 is different from what it really is. Hardware wise, it is still an AM3 DDR3 motherboard, so it will support DDR3. It's probably just a glitch in the bios that they need to update, but I wouldn't say its anything major. Besides, those two posts look a little suspicious to me, they are worded too similarly. I would say they were posted by the same people, and those posts are nearly worthless in my opinion.

Either way, that board is still an AM3 DDR3 motherboard. DDR2 does not physically work with DDR3 slots, so you can only use DDR3 on that motherboard anyways.
 
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