Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 rev.3
Chassis: Bitfenix Shinobi Window
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| It's here :) |
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| A 4BG Kingston 1600-as DDR3 (Black!! :) |
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| AMD FX-6300 - six cores 3,5 GHz // Prohardver teszt |
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| Gigabyte 970A-DS3 - Official Page |
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| Xigmatek Gaia cooler with AMD mount |
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| Gaia backplate |
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| Removing the factory CPU cooler mount from the motherboard |
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| Removed factory mounts |
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| The Xigmatek gaia mounts - front |
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| The Xigmatek gaia mounts - back |
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| Unboxing the AMD FX-6300 |
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| Ooops! It wasn't me. Transporting or shipping wasn't perfect... |
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| CPU in place... |
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| Arctic MX-4 on it! |
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| It looks awful I know... :) - but it'll do (46C° is the max CPU temperature so far) |
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| Screws in place |
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| The Kingston RAMs are in place |
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| HyperX Black |
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| Almost everything in place it the Bitfenix Shinobi Window. The VGA is Gigabyte HD 6770. // 6770 unboxing videos: link or link (Hungarian) |
Man, seeing an FX-6300 build really takes me back! Those Gigabyte 970A boards were absolute tanks for budget builds back in the day. I couldn't help but cringe a bit at that photo where you mentioned the shipping wasn't perfect—seeing signs of rough handling right out of the box is every builder’s worst nightmare. I once had a similar scare with an old Phenom chip where a few pins arrived slightly out of alignment, and I spent an hour with a mechanical pencil trying to straighten them out without snapping anything.
VálaszTörlésIt’s funny how that need for physical precision never really changes, whether you're building a home PC or working on professional enterprise gear. I was recently installing a Network Firewalls Expansion Module into a rack-mounted unit, and it gave me that same "please don't break" anxiety. Much like seating a CPU, if you don’t align those high-density pins perfectly before applying pressure, you’re just looking at a very expensive headache.
Your max temperature of 46°C is actually quite impressive for that chip, even if the thermal paste application looked a bit "messy" as you put it! It clearly did the job. Did you find the Bitfenix Shinobi easy to work with for cable management, or was it a bit of a squeeze with that Gaia cooler height?