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Old 12-18-2010
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what is that thing that's to the left of the cpu socket with heatsink on top of it and the black little square that's north of the cpu socket there is 3 of them on the commando
cuz they run stupidly hot!
like BURN HAND HOT!

and i was clocking in side so that's a stupid thing to do it too!
didn't have a reeally good cooling
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what is that thing that's to the left of the cpu socket with heatsink on top of it and the black little square that's north of the cpu socket there is 3 of them on the commando
cuz they run stupidly hot!
like BURN HAND HOT!

and i was clocking in side so that's a stupid thing to do it too!
didn't have a reeally good cooling
Are you talking about the VRMs? (located between the CPU socket and the IO ports.

Keeping those cool (not sub zero), will help with stability. Keeping hte Chipset cool helps all the way around. And subzero should be okay with that. I also poured a little LN2 here and there when I was doing it
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