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Originally Posted by Web-Junkie
The silencer is 1" longer than a regular PSU, this is so the fan has a 1" air gap between itself and the PCB, supposed to reduce turbulance and noise!
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Yup, that's what I was on about when I was saying to make sure there was a bit of space in front of your intake fan.
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Originally Posted by Web-Junkie
I only brushed the resistor (could be a capacitor?) and just shows how easy they break!
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Luckily I've not done anything like that, though I did manage to gouge a circuit track on a walkman in my youth. Putting heatsinks on socket 7 boards was a bit nerve-wracking when they used the default clip mechanism, rather than bolting to the motherboard. They required quite a bit of pressure, & the clips on a lot of heatsinks didn't have anything to prevent the screwdriver slipping off the bit you had to push down on. 1 nifty idea I saw on Abit boards was a strip of clear plastic stuck on to the PCB next to the socket, underneath where you had to push down with a screwdriver on the heatsink clip, as an extra precaution in case the screwdriver slipped.
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Originally Posted by Web-Junkie
Here's your pic showing the resistor I broke:
Tis only a tiny thing, me wonders what it did? |
If you're
very lucky it'll be something to do with the blue thing next to it, which most people will never use [chassis intrusion connector], but I'd still contact Asus to make sure, IIWY. Also, it's very close to the BIOS chip, so I wouldn't go flashing your BIOS unless you
really need to. I also wouldn't use the fan header that it's near to either [not like the Crosshair hasn't got more than you need anyway
], just in case.
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Originally Posted by Web-Junkie
So far only had one problem in windows, opened 'My documents' folder and there was no border around it, it's as though it hadn't been drawn in and was using the background as the border instead, then explorer crashed so I ran it again and the folder worked fine after that! Coincidence or just a one off not sure?
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No way to tell with a 1-off.