Motherboard Question

[Aoe3_CA]

Hey Guys well i got a new Motherboard for my pc and i was wondering when installing it do i need thermal Greese or Thermal tape at all. It also says on the instruction thing -Power on the computer and enter the BIOS load optimized defaults and set the first boot device to optical drive. I dont understand that either anyone mind helping me?

[bannedshow]

no
its not really neccesary although make sure u have a good CPU fan and the right socket....usually cpu fans come with thermal grease on them,
also for the boot settings...unless ur reinstalling windows u this is pointless

[DeathScourge]

are you building a computer or are you replacing parts? if you are replacing parts, then how old is your pc???

[[MPGH]iverson954360]

So with that boot thingy what its trying to tell you to do is go into your bios and change your boot settings so that the first device the computer tries to boot from is your optical drive (cd/dvd drive) that way if you ever have a problem with your harddrive when you stick in a recovery cd or something, it'll boot from the cd instead of trying to boot from a possibly broken hard drive.

[Aoe3_CA]

Oh ok thanks everybody for the help . Also Death i'm replacing parts.

[DeathScourge]

ok how old is your pc???
mine is currently 3 years old and i'm thinking about replacing it come next year. i'll probably sell it for 150-200 since it still kicks like its a new pc.

[Aoe3_CA]

My pc is like 3-5 years old i forgot when i bought it but its between there.

[B3LIAL]

You do need thermal paste. Don't want your processor to melt. That would suck

[grekx]

lol like i said i didnt need to when i rebuilt mine because i managed to get it off with the heatsink without damaging nothing XD

[DeathScourge]

i usually just replace the damn thing when it hits 3-4 years. but yeah, you do need thermal greese, unless your replacing the fan