Hi, First let me say I've built PCs since 1995, so I'm not a rookie. The PC I'm working on now is my first 64 bit rig.
My motherboard is a DFI Lanparty 790 FX.
Well I got stumped right off the bat with trying to attach a heatsink. I have 2. One is a gargantuan Zalman Ultra Quiet Model CNPS9700 NT with poor instructions and provides a variety of Alien looking hardware to accomodate different CPUs. My CPU is a AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400 and comes with a very decent looking stock heatsink and fan, yet still I don't see how it can attach. The DFI Mobo has this big sorta oval-shaped ring around the CPU socket that is bright yellow. It's held on by 4 large phillips screws and can be easily detached. Once that's done, there appears
to be no other device nearby to use to attach the heatsink-fan unit.
The yellow ring does have stubs that look like they are for attaching to the square holes in the clamps on the attachment ring hanging from both sides of the heatsink-fan unit. The problem is the heat-sink fan would have to slide down inside the ring and it wouldn't fit, besides other reasons it just wouldn't work.
This Mobo is supposed to be for both AM2 and AM2+ type CPUs. Mine is the AM2 type.
Can anyone give some advice I'm losing my mine here!
Thanks! Eric in Metro-Detroit