Questions tagged [heatsink]
A device designed to passively remove heat from a heat source, such as a CPU.
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What is the name of these SSD M.2 heatsink copper sheets?
Would like to add a 2nd SSD in a Lenovo ThinkBook 16p G2 ACH laptop.
According to the Hardware Maintenance Manual you have to wrap it in the following:
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Wildly fluctuating CPU package temperatures
I’ve used 3 different apps to monitor the CPU and GPU temperatures on my Windows laptop and I notice that the CPU temperature can be 80C one second and 50C the next, or 60C one second and 90C the next....
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Hardware: is stacking multiple heatsinks beneficial?
I'm ordering a Raspberry Pi 4B with 8GB of RAM. Along with that I ordered the SD card, some kind of case, etc. (I will be running a Minecraft server on it, very CPU heavy stuff.) The case leaves ...
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Is it ok to "over tighten" laptop heat sink screws? Is it ok for one screw being slightly less tight than the others?
I have the Acer Nitro 5 AN515-53.
I have a screw that is tightened but may not be tightened ALL the way since the head is stripped, and I don't want to get a new one until I have to open my laptop ...
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Why isn't a heatsink enough to cool a CPU? [closed]
Why can't the heatsink alone cool a CPU? Why isn't carrying heat away from the CPU enough?
EDIT: Why can't heatsink with heatpipes cool a CPU?
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What are these heat sink components?
This is my first time dismantling a laptop. I was wondering what are those two components above the heat sink in the picture?
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Does thermal paste work on all heatsinks?
I am looking to purchase a cooler/heatsink combo and the bottom of the heatsink is different than what I'm used to seeing. Does it get thermal paste just like any other heatsink?
Heatsink I want to ...
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heatspreader paste on cpu pins
Recently, I tried to upgrade my AMD Ryzen CPU in my computer with a newer (compatible) one. When I removed the heatsink, it stuck to the old processor so strongly, that I quite possibly damaged the ...
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What's the name of the tape used on laptop heat sinks?
I recently swapped my laptop's fan with a new one...I used a glue stick to glue back the tape on the new fan...However, I am not really sure if the glue stick can withstand heat or if it doesn't dry ...
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NVMe SSD on mini ITX motherboard
I'm looking to get an NVMe SSD on my computer, but I have a mini ITX build. However, everything I've read online strongly suggests that NVMe SSD's should use heatsinks to avoid excessive heat and ...
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Thread-holes destroyed for CPU heatsink in laptop
Recently, I was doing a cleaning session for my laptop.
After years of use, two thread-holes gived in, when screwing the CPU heatsink back in.
Unlike a regular damaged thread-hole its quite easy to ...
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Repairing the Northbridge Heatsink / Thermal Glue with Alternative Product
I was replacing a CPU fan on an old PC and had to remove the motherboard to swap out the backplate. In the process of placing the motherboard back, I was using the chipset heatsink to line up the ...
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Some parts of the heat pipes in my Asus N552vw laptop are black. Is it normal?
I watched a video on YouTube in which someone removes the cover of Asus N552 laptop. The color of the heat pipes in that video were all copper. The picture below shows how those of my laptop (Asus ...
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Using liquid metal thermal paste on copper aluminum combination heat sink
I have this aluminum - copper combination heat sink for the processor of my desktop computer, can I use the liquid metal thermal paste on it?
Specifically it is the thermal grizzly conductonaut ...
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Is it possible to swap passive for active cooling on this supermicro board?
I'm looking to buy this Supermicro Mini-ITX board for an upcoming NAS build:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/A2SDi-H-TF
The only thing is, it has an integrated CPU with passive ...
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