I've covered all those items, my fellow Devonian.

CPU was already covered in gunk from its previous use (by an I.T chappie )

The heatsink was actually the factory retail one from an AMD64 4000.

PSU was supplied along with the CPU by mr I.T chappy. 430w silent running one. With loads of damn cables I'm not sure the hell they do. S-ATA etc. :confused:

S-ATA is 'Serial ATA' the replacement for IDE

SATA is supposedly faster than IDE. Although I have recently built myself a new PC, I cant really tell the difference apart from the fact that its a damn site easier to plug in

Nice one Jason

See - told you it was a peice of cake !

Panic over. There was only one way it would go anyway, so I've shoved it in. Hope thats OK. (left 4 blanks at bottom end of plug socket)

You did the right thing m8, sorry I am away at the moment and can only get online at work :-)

some places will sell you an adapter for a fiver that does exactly what you did :-) all the newer boards are coming with 24pin atx pinouts

Fitting heatsinks is good fun although the heatsinks for the A64's are a hell of a lot easier that Socket A's

As long as you get a good seal between the Heatsink and processor you will be fine. You did get a good heatsink didn't you ?

And I know its late in the day to ask' date=' but have you ensured that your PSU is up to the job?

Also on the fans question, usually fans at the front suck in and fans at the back blow out, so that you get a flow of air over the CPU and MB. There should be connectors on your MB for the fans, usually 2 or 3, but bear in mind that these will be 3 pin connectors which are smaller than the standard 4 pin connectors used by hard drives etc. Also with regard to the power lead, ATX boards use a 20 pin connector, the latest ATX2 boards use a 24 pin. Ideally if you have a 20 pin PSU and a 24 pin MB you should get hold of the adaptor which turns a 20 pin into a 24, these are readily available. Leaving the 4 pins unconnected is (from what I read) not a good idea, something to do with voltages I think (although I am no expert).[/quote']

Our new NEC server running an AMD64 came with the 4 pins exposed and it's hammering away fine as is my own PC, nothing to worry about.

The heatsink is the retail one for amd64's and they are the best to use, lots of places have tested other coolers against it and at best match it for an extra

If your bios supports cool and quiet it's a good idea to use that as it automatically slows the cpu fan down to reduce noise when the temps are low, and spins it up when the temps are high

As a folding machine, i guess temps will be high all the time:D

Have you powered it up yet Jason?

Not powered it up yet - Only really "finished" it at midnight last night and I had some spare odd looking PSU cables - like one thin one with a fine blue & black wire, and a 3 pin style small plug on the end. No way of knowing where / if that was supposed to go on the board? Fluff? Any clues? I don't think the PSU came with a destruction manual.

Playing with BIOS is going to be fun as well - I hope its just a case of sticking the CD in and it "going"

Especially if a little plan I've got going comes off;)

Err just so i know what plan is that :eek:

The only thing extra to say Devon, is to tidy up all the cables(from that last pic you posted) as this will deffo help to increase air circulation around the case, and also if you ever move the comp, there is always a chance of a loose cable getting caught within a case or cpu fan, which you really dont want.

HTH

Lee

Err just so i know what plan is that :eek:

Well lets just say theres an AMD Opteron AND an AMD 64x2 4800 involved:cool:

Alonh with some carefully selected other components and a mild upgrade for my current PC

Along with some additional PC's in work(hopefully)

Cables tided up. Now I'm going to attempt to insert my 4 80mm fans, which now doubt will upset my neatly tied up spare leads from the PSU. Other cables are sellopated to the case edges where possible.

Going to get the 4 fans out the boot - Shall post finished results. Might leave BIOS work until another day though.

ITS ALIVE! (heard that in another context recently )

It powers up, "runs", but I had to turn it off at the switch as I can't find a damned mouse.... Got three spare keyboards and no mice. Last resort I pinch the one off this PC temporarily, if I can be bothered.

Looks like the cat's been too good at his job.

Cables tided up. Now I'm going to attempt to insert my 4 80mm fans' date=' which now doubt will upset my neatly tied up spare leads from the PSU. Other cables are sellopated to the case edges where possible.

Going to get the 4 fans out the boot - Shall post finished results. Might leave BIOS work until another day though. [/quote']

You're doing it all wrong!!

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/09/strip_out_the_fans/

Not powered it up yet - Only really "finished" it at midnight last night and I had some spare odd looking PSU cables - like one thin one with a fine blue & black wire' date=' and a 3 pin style small plug on the end. No way of knowing where / if that was supposed to go on the board? Fluff? Any clues? I don't think the PSU came with a destruction manual.

Playing with BIOS is going to be fun as well - I hope its just a case of sticking the CD in and it "going" [/quote']

Sorry for the late reply m8, that wire is for the chassis intrusion detection, designed to cut the power to the PC for gimps that go poking around in the PC with the power on, me being such a gimp, I never bother connecting them :-)

Well, its alive but having problems getting it to see the HDD and CD rom.... see my other thread.