**Official ABIT IP-35 Pro Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[Khaotic]

Ace-A-Rue's heatpipe mod link lists out all the parts that you can find and use. My local ACE hardware store had the bolts and nuts in brass, and i subsituted the rubber washer for a nylon washer and it worked like a champ.

The small #40 screw head will have plenty of clearance on the underside of the board. As in, it shouldn't come close to the motherboard tray at all. But just to be safe - I put the electrical tape over the screw heads anyway. I haven't been able to run a stress test to see if it changed anything - but when i removed my heatpipe, the TIM over the MOSFETS only had impressions from 3 of the ICs. The TIM over the Northbrdige wasn't even melted.
One thing i did do, i took the foam square off of the heatsink and matted it down a bit with a rolling pin. Then I put it on the board around the northbridge. It was quite lower than the slug of the NB chip, but it still offered the rest of the components on the flip chip a little protection.
I just wasn't sure how much torque to put on the nut.

[ingeborgdot]

I had to RMA my board and am getting a new one in a couple of days. I have never had to do this before and was wondering if anything needs to be done other than a bios update. It will be the exact same board so what do I need to do? Thanks.