Well, I got this huge Coolermaster fan today from Amazon.ca. However, it was way too much of a pain to install (I would have had to take my motherboard out), so I decided to give up on the troublesome AMD Phenom II 940 Black Edition CPU I bought. I took it out and packed away the new fan and put in the AMD Phenom 9650 I had also bought. Hopefully, I can sell the 940. What a difference 95W and 125 W CPUs are!
Next, I popped the Radeon HD4350 PCI Express 2.0 Video card back into the system. The mainboard has ATI HD4200 onboard. It was a bugger to configure dual display with two display adaptors! You have to make sure the BIOS is set to surround view. Also, when I attached my LCD TV, my DVI connexion to the LCD monitor disappeared (BIOS switched to initialising the TV (PCI-E card) first.
I'm kind of ticked. This was a huge waste of time and $$$.
The Phenom 9650 is running cool with core temps of 20°C with light load. The Phenom II 940 would be at 45-55°C core temp.
Managed to sell the Phenom II 940 on 9/11. Good riddance! Took a loss on it, but including the extra fans, I've wasted about $60. ARGH!
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