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Answered my own question. According to the arctic silver website I should have cleaned the heat sink and applied the AS 5 before I started up the computer. It is now impossible for me to get all the wax out of the grooves of the heatsink now that it has been melted in. So I will order a nice...

I am using the stock heatsink and fan that the 3700+ came with. Oh and I don't mean that it just jumps to that temp, it creeps up to it, then hovers there while ingame. Just not sure if this is to much heat or not. I know that the safety feature turns the system off at 100c, but I don't...

Woot got my MB and CPU in last night. I was up till about 2am getting everything up and running again. Looks like I may need to invest in an nVidia card. My x700xt works fine, but the nVidia chipset on the MB does not like the Catalyst AI at all. So after uninstalling the Catalyst AI I...

Hopefully ATI comes out okay. I am currently using an 700XT, which was a nice upgrade from my 9600 pro. I may just wait :)

Thank you for the welcome. Looks like this is a great place to get info. I was pretty much leaning to keeping it stock. I won't lie, I am gun shy when it comes to frying 250+ dollars. Although I may think of switching the stock heatsink/fan with a coolermaster. But then again I will see if...

Recently my P4 2.8, and my Asus P4P800 Deluxe MB went *poof* So I have decided to go with Athlon for the first time, (I know I am slow). Here is what is on the way from newegg: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1GHz FSB Socket 939 and EPoX EP-9NDA3+ Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce3 Ultra ATX AMD...