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mrjack · 07-22-2006, 02:11 PM

I'm still trying to build up the self-confidence to install the CPU and HSF myself, I'm mostly worried about applying the right amount of thermal paste and putting on the HSF. Cause I'm usually a bit "too" careful when it comes to electronics, cause I don't want to break anything.

And I noticed that the MSI K8N Neo2 FX has a FSB of 800 so the HT would be 1600, not 2000 like it usually is nowadays. Will this cause a big hit in performance?

And another concerne is that I'm not sure what stepping the CPU is, E6 or E3. Cause the K8N Neo2 FX only supports the E6 CPU's after a BIOS update, but how am I going to update the BIOS if the mobo doesn't support the CPU and start?

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mrjack VIP Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Finland Age: 18 Posts: 2,589	I'm still trying to build up the self-confidence to install the CPU and HSF myself, I'm mostly worried about applying the right amount of thermal paste and putting on the HSF. Cause I'm usually a bit "too" careful when it comes to electronics, cause I don't want to break anything. And I noticed that the MSI K8N Neo2 FX has a FSB of 800 so the HT would be 1600, not 2000 like it usually is nowadays. Will this cause a big hit in performance? And another concerne is that I'm not sure what stepping the CPU is, E6 or E3. Cause the K8N Neo2 FX only supports the E6 CPU's after a BIOS update, but how am I going to update the BIOS if the mobo doesn't support the CPU and start? __________________ Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 3.45GHz \| MSI P7N Zilent 2x2048Mb OCZ Titanium 800MHz DDR2 Western Digital Caviar 160Gb SATAII Samsung Spinpoint F1 320Gb SATAII Western Digital Caviar 500Gb SATAII Samsung Spinpoint F1 750Gb SATAII MSI NX8800GT OC 512Mb Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Antec Truepower Trio 550W Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit Last edited by mrjack; 07-22-2006 at 02:13 PM.