A little AM2 warning

06-07-2006, 20:23

It appears these are shiping with HSF assemblies that do not fit the retention clip
As you see from the attatched image the retention assembly is Hexagonal where as the HSF unit that comes with A retail cpu is a standard rectangle and will not fit the board.
I cut the retention assembly to size but if you dont want to do this may I reccomend the artic cooling freezer 64 pro will fit perfectly
I have found this problem so far with AM2 sempron cpus and athlon 64 cpus I have no reason to think X2 cpus or FX will be any different

MovedGoalPosts · 06-07-2006, 20:31

That's just dumb. Vendor's aren't going to be pleased with all the "not fit for purpose" returns

06-07-2006, 20:33

Thats what I thought but then I found my hacksaw lol lol

AndrewJ · 06-07-2006, 21:20

If it don't fit...make it fit

06-07-2006, 21:57

I did