Quote Originally Posted by Hor$eman View Post
Well, I've screwed up. I removed the NB-SB-Fet coolers. The thermal paste was was solid rock hard and difficult to remove. I scraped and sanded it off carefully. I snipped the fet coolers and replaced them, and put Thermaltake NB coolers on the NB and SB. After re-installation, motherboard won't post. My poster cord got screwed up about a month ago, so I can't tell why it won't post. Removed the battery and left it overnight. No joy.

I guess I will buy another board for the poster, and change out the Cooling system so I can RMA this board, hehe.

On the upside, bought Patriot PC9600 RAM and it is fantastic.
PC6400 Kingston HyperX 4-4-4-12-2T @ 888 Mhz best bandwidth was ~8400 MB/sec
PC9600 Patriot Viper 4-4-4-12-2T @ 1200 Mhz initial bandwidth 9600 MB, without getting into tighter timings. For the price, the Patriot RAM is fantastic.
Sorry to hear that. You need to use accetone or nail polish remover with a Q-tip to get the paste off. Be very carefull on the mb and dont hit any of the small resistors beside the nb and sb.