Problem booting Bulldozer in Crosshair V Solution

[Retired]

Hey, I just spent and hour messing with the motherboard because I couldn't get it to boot with a bulldozer FX 8150 chip in it. Well it turns out it was because I was using an Indigo Xtreme as my thermal interface. Before the reflow happens it doesnt transfer heat well at all. So when I was trying to boot it before the reflow it seemed like the board wasn't posting. What was happening was that even though all my motherboard thermal monitoring was turned off the processor turned off. Using regular thermal paste solved the problem.

[xeromist]

Interesting. I guess maybe the threshold for shutdown is too quick for IX.

[trailer_park_bo]

im very glad you solved that unusaul problem"wow"

[Retired]

I always use Arctic silver thermal paste (99% silver). I think its one of the best you can use.

[Kipper]

IC Diamond is some good stuff but you dam near need a bulldozer to spread it, crap is dam near a sold. LOL

[FiNAS]

Kipper wrote:
IC Diamond is some good stuff but you dam near need a bulldozer to spread it, crap is dam near a sold. LOL

I used AS5 for the past 6 years until I decided to try a bunch of them on january. I tried 7 diferent of the most rated brands, and IC Diamond came out on top. The diference to AS5 is amazing.

having said that, the thing is hard as hardened cement! but I found a solution: heat up the siringe by dropping it on hot water and heat up the cpu and cpu-block surface with a airdryier. That will make the the IC diamond spread like butter.

[Kipper]

FiNAS wrote:
I used AS5 for the past 6 years until I decided to try a bunch of them on january. I tried 7 diferent of the most rated brands, and IC Diamond came out on top. The diference to AS5 is amazing.

having said that, the thing is hard as hardened cement! but I found a solution: heat up the siringe by dropping it on hot water and heat up the cpu and cpu-block surface with a airdryier. That will make the the IC diamond spread like butter.

I will give the warm it up method a try, thanks

I have AS5, MX-2, MX-4, OCZ Freeze, samples from TT, CoolIt, CoolerMaster, and others and the IC Diamond continues to keep things cooler by 2-3° C.

[jackcrow999]

i use ic diamond myself on all my high end builds it actually lowers my temps by an average of 3.1 to 3.31 degree's cooler than alt compounds on exact same configured build

[NemesisChild]

OCZ Freeze for me, the best TIM that I have ever used.

[DaemonCantor]

I use Arctic Silver Ceramiq and never had any trouble but if you want a laugh and a good review of the thermal compounds look up the site Hardware Secrets they tested all of them and rated them and they did find Pink Lipstick worked very good but Chocolate preformed lousy....go figure...! They also have a great review of Power Supplies there which is another thing I suggest if you want to understand why some of the BSOD errors happen as well as components burn out faster than normal....I found that the Thermal Take PS's are so noisy on the outputs that they will cause BSOD's and possibly fry components...But the Antec's Earth Watt's are better than whats on the label...