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CPU Heatsink Question
I was asked by a friend to help seat a new Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro onto his AMD Phenom 9750 (same as me) CPU. While seating the heatsink, however, I found that I had to push incredibly hard just to get the thing to seat with the included brackets. I was afraid that I could potentially crack the MB, so I pushed it in tight but not to tight and screwed it in.
Upon inspection, I saw that the screws were just near the tip of the end, which could fail and cause the CPU to crash down upon the graphics card, etc.
Now, the heatsink also has some Intel screws that were a bit longer and have about the same thickness. I used those instead and the seating is much better. My question is am I supposed to use the AMD screws included? The CPU is around 42 degrees idle not overclocked. Could that temperature decrease if I were to use the correcr screws that were meant for that MB?