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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | sata/motherboard question
DVA9193
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on November 14 2010
50 State Club
Century Club

Western United States

144 legs, 268.9 hours
133 legs, 244.7 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on January 19 2012 17:39 ET by Joel Robinson
Ok guys time to shine, I recently (just about an hour ago) took out my 280 power supply for a new 430 in preparation for my graphic card switch (ATI 4350 to Nvidia GTX 550) coming in the mail soon. Anywho the new power supply gave me 2 sata connectors, unfortunately there about 2 inches apart at the split and I need 1 for my hard drive and 1 for my DVD disk drive a foot away. I do however have 6 LP4 connectors, I saw at office depot you can get a LP4 to Sata connector. Will this work?
Question 2 on the motherboard, I know what the processor and heat sink look like etc... there is a piece all by itself...best way to describe it is a fin shaped pyramid with a locking bar over the top of it....What the...?

Specs
Dell inspiron 546
Processor AMD phenom 9750 quad core 2.40GHz
Ram 8GB (already upgraded to maximum from 6)
Windows Vista 64
Video as described above
Direct X 11.0 for Vista

Joel Robinson

First Officer, B757-200
DVA5255
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on November 17 2007

Western United States

31 legs, 54.8 hours
15 legs, 18.7 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on January 19 2012 18:16 ET by Louis Vanbelkum
the locking bar to lock the cpu chip to the motherboard, or the heatsink to the board? I have a AMD processor so i think i know what you are talking about the intel ones like screw in the but the amd fans clamp down.
DVA1690
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP

Joined on May 05 2004
50 State Club
Quatercentenary Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Stage 1 Jet Double Century Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Life begins at Vr"
Longmont, CO USA

477 legs, 700.4 hours
468 legs, 686.6 hours online
254 legs, 389.4 hours ACARS
3 legs, 3.9 hours event
 Posted onPost created on January 19 2012 18:22 ET by Trevor Bair
Joel Robinson wrote:

...I do however have 6 LP4 connectors, I saw at office depot you can get a LP4 to Sata connector. Will this work?

Yes, I had to do this for my build as well and it works no problems.

Joel Robinson wrote:

Question 2 on the motherboard, I know what the processor and heat sink look like etc... there is a piece all by itself...best way to describe it is a fin shaped pyramid with a locking bar over the top of it....What the...?

Got a pic? The mobo does ship with a piece of plastic covering the socket. Can't think what else would have a locking bar... ?


Trevor Bair

Senior Captain, MD-88
DVA5255
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on November 17 2007

Western United States

31 legs, 54.8 hours
15 legs, 18.7 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on January 19 2012 19:44 ET by Louis Vanbelkum
which is it on the headsink/fan or the mobo ?
DVA9193
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on November 14 2010
50 State Club
Century Club

Western United States

144 legs, 268.9 hours
133 legs, 244.7 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on January 20 2012 15:39 ET by Joel Robinson
Louis Vanbelkum wrote:

which is it on the headsink/fan or the mobo ?


its on the mobo away from the processor. its about 2 inches high and looks like a bunch of plates/heat fins stacked on top of each other in a descending order with the smallest on top. Theres about 7 of them stacked. then it has a locking bar on each side of the longest plates.

Also thinking of upgrading my processor from a 2.4 to at least a 3.0/ is there anything I need to add to the mobo AND how do I know what type socket I have. Its a square with two little notches/ one on each side. Is it 3, 3+ or FM1


Joel Robinson

First Officer, B757-200
DVA1690
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP

Joined on May 05 2004
50 State Club
Quatercentenary Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Stage 1 Jet Double Century Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Life begins at Vr"
Longmont, CO USA

477 legs, 700.4 hours
468 legs, 686.6 hours online
254 legs, 389.4 hours ACARS
3 legs, 3.9 hours event
 Posted onPost created on January 20 2012 15:52 ET by Trevor Bair
Does it look like the blue things on either side of my CPU fan in this pic? If so, those are just other chipsets...


Trevor Bair

Senior Captain, MD-88
DVA9193
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on November 14 2010
50 State Club
Century Club

Western United States

144 legs, 268.9 hours
133 legs, 244.7 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on January 20 2012 17:14 ET by Joel Robinson
different shape on mine, but after goggling some images...yeah that might be a chip set

Joel Robinson

First Officer, B757-200
DVA5255
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on November 17 2007

Western United States

31 legs, 54.8 hours
15 legs, 18.7 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on January 20 2012 19:53 ET by Louis Vanbelkum
Joel Robinson wrote:

Louis Vanbelkum wrote:

which is it on the headsink/fan or the mobo ?


its on the mobo away from the processor. its about 2 inches high and looks like a bunch of plates/heat fins stacked on top of each other in a descending order with the smallest on top. Theres about 7 of them stacked. then it has a locking bar on each side of the longest plates.




Also thinking of upgrading my processor from a 2.4 to at least a 3.0/ is there anything I need to add to the mobo AND how do I know what type socket I have. Its a square with two little notches/ one on each side. Is it 3, 3+ or FM1


I suggest getting the 8120 and a corsair h60 to cool it. Just booted my 8120 and did some load test on it at 4.7Gz 8 cores ;). At load i am still only hitting 55 and i don't see anything but prime really hitting 8 cores at %100 lol. I will look up your cpu right now to tell u what socket u have.

You are using a AM2+ socket I believe that AM2 sockets are not really used anymore. So your only option when upgrading would be a new mobo and processor. I am not sure how available this option is since your using a Dell case. It would cost alot of money to for a mobo, and processor upgrade and the fact that by then you mise well build a whole new computer that can be upgraded in the future.
DVA9193
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on November 14 2010
50 State Club
Century Club

Western United States

144 legs, 268.9 hours
133 legs, 244.7 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on January 22 2012 13:46 ET by Joel Robinson
Thanks Louis, your probably right, I think it is a AM2+ now that you mention it, I remember seeing that somewhere in the past. Oh well, not really that big a deal. I suppose I can live with the 2.4GHz for a while. I do know after learning some more....I am done with places like Gateway, Dell, etc.... mad

Joel Robinson

First Officer, B757-200
DVA5255
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on November 17 2007

Western United States

31 legs, 54.8 hours
15 legs, 18.7 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on January 22 2012 15:30 ET by Louis Vanbelkum
I suggested another person a set up that is in about the same situation cost to change everything around was about $260 or something and should really help if used. And open up upgrade ability for cheaper in the future.
DVA9193
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on November 14 2010
50 State Club
Century Club

Western United States

144 legs, 268.9 hours
133 legs, 244.7 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on January 24 2012 16:53 ET by Joel Robinson
Sorry for my memory this is a pic of what I was referring to/ the two finned silver things
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75104205@N07/6756921189/in/photostream/
again sorry for the link, I don't know how to just make the pic appear.

Joel Robinson

First Officer, B757-200
DVA7016
Senior Captain, B767-300

Joined on February 14 2009
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"I5 2500K - 560GTX - 8GB Ripjaw"
Essex GB

385 legs, 1,090.6 hours
384 legs, 1,089.6 hours ACARS
1,821 legs, 4,442.9 hours total
 Posted onPost created on January 24 2012 17:04 ET by Alan Barber
Just a heatsink for a chipset or something - nothing to worry about - or remove wink

Alan Barber

Senior Captain, B767-300

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