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Five year old unopened boxed CPU – is the stock thermal compound still good?
I have obtained an unopened, sealed, boxed CPU dating back to 2009. It’s an Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 with heatsink + thermal compound pre-applied. Is the stock thermal compound still OK to use after ...
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Should thermal compund be replaced after the heat sink is taken off?
I recently took apart a Dell Inspiron N5110 Laptop to clean the cooling fan and other stuff. This involved removing the heat sink as well. I did not put on new thermal compound when I put things back. ...
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Does the color of a heatsink affect its performance in dissipating heat?
I know that heatsinks come in different fin forms and those different fin forms affect the way how they dissipate heat. However, there's something I could not get about them and it's their color.
Can ...
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Can I replace my notebook's fan without replacing the heat sink?
My laptop (Acer Travelmate 8204) has started making a grinding noise, which seems to be coming from the fan (not the hard drive). Some articles online mention replacing the fan, but others imply that ...
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Can I use an LGA 1156/1155 heatsink on an LGA 1150 motherboard?
I'm considering moving to Haswell from Nehalem by just getting a new mobo and CPU, but I'm not sure if I can keep my current heatsink.
Can an LGA 1156 heatsink be mounted on to an LGA 1150 ...
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Orientation of PC during burn-in?
I heard a rumor that when you build a new PC, you are supposed to "burn" it in for about 24 hours so the thermal paste will correctly bond between the heatsink and the CPU. Assuming this is really ...
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What is the gum like thing on the heat sink?
See the attached picture. What is the gum like thing? Should I replace it with thermal paste? Thanks!
Update
Thank you guys! I replaced it with new thermal paste and my laptop is not burning anymore!...
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Which of these heatsink technology would be better?
as per this question I think I should direct this question to this site.
Having been a computer enthusiast for a while I have yet to build my own computer, but I'm at it now for this Christmas period ...
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Heatsinks and Xeon E5 CPUs
I've constructed a server that uses 2 Xeon E5-2620 CPUs and per Intel's recommendation I'm in the process of ordering a heatsink and I'm slightly concerned about thermal management. The case I'm using ...
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Pentium 4 3.4 GHz cooling
I have an old Northwood compatible Shuttle XPC that I upgraded from a 2.6 GHz Pentium 4 (Northwood) to a 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 (Northwood). Now, I'm wondering if it is cooling it well enough. I've seen it ...
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Is it safe to place heat sink such that it joins multiple voltage regulators?
This is quite possibly a stupid question, but the GPU cooler I bought leaves me with little choice but to position heat sinks such that they straddle and join multiple voltage regulators. Is this a ...
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Took off heatsink in my laptop, "gum" underneath gpu requires paste?
So I had a bad experience with my laptop when cleaning out the vent. I had to remove the heatsink to clean it out, but then the computer turned off constantly. I opened it up again and I applied ...
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Does the height of a CPU's heatsink affect the cooling?
The CPU of my computer has a quite tall (about 1.5in I think) heatsink compared to the one my friend's computer had, and this question has been in my mind for a while. Does the height of a CPU's ...
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Can I use an old sempron stock heat sink with a Phenom II processor?
I'm upgrading from an old AMD Sempron 140 to a Phenom II 945. The motherboard will be the same.
Assuming I'm not planning to overclock, can I still use the same stock AMD heat sink that came with ...
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XSensors is giving me scary readings ?
I am these readings from XSensors, really scary can someone tell me what might be wrong with my system. I did replace the thermal compound with Cooler Master HTK-002 still no difference the ...
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