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Before any of you ask you must have a good power supply. The power supply I am running
here is a 500 watt from COMP USA plus a 400 watt for the hard drive's CD ROM's cdrw and
anything else I need. Yep that's right, the 500 watt unit run's nothing but the mother board.
Do you think I have enough ?? The 500 watt has 300 watts just on the 3.0 & 5.0 volt side.
HERE'S how two wire 2 up safely.
Well let's start with my mother board.This a epox 8k7a rev. 1.0 I am testing here.
The CPU is a Tbird 1333 AYHJA Y (from The Overclockerz Store).
While I am the subject of where I buy my CPU's motherboard's and ram.
Let me tell you. You can not find anywhere else that can do a better job of supplying the
best in computer supplies. The guy's at the overclocker store are the best!!!!!. They
have really helped me allot especially ANDY & MATT.
Well first mod I did was try to stabilize the 5.0 volt side. I have seen allot of people online
telling people to just connect the 5.0 volt wire from the power supply directly to the heat
sinks for the mofset's, but they are all complaining of excessive heat on the sinks.
Well no wonder they get hot, the heat sink is attached by a roll pin, that is loosely fit to
each other. Electricity will all was generate heat if the is a loose connection, and there is
no way to fix the pin to sink connection. But if you turn over the board to were the 5.0
volt mofset's are located you can solder a wire directly to the the mofset power supply.
Well that give's you a nice boost. Before I was getting 4.78 volts Now 4.85
to 4.90 under load. But yes it is still making heat but nowhere near before.
But I couldn't let that go with out a fan so I made a special fan plate for the heat sink's.
While I was at it I made a cooler for my DDR RAM
Next I worked out a mod for the CPU Itself.
