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With an intel quad core processor but I'm confused how to actually "fit" it. I understand most mothboards now have the little levery thingy which helps alot but then what exactly is the "heatsink" I have heard so much about?


Thanks


Tom

Well assuming a moth board is something to do with butterflies........
A heat sink is a rather handy cooling device that takes heat away from a processor thus enabling it to function better

Well assuming a moth board is something to do with butterflies........
A heat sink is a rather handy cooling device that takes heat away from a processor thus enabling it to function better

How does it do this?

With an intel quad core processor but I'm confused how to actually "fit" it. I understand most mothboards now have the little levery thingy which helps alot but then what exactly is the "heatsink" I have heard so much about?


Thanks


Tom

Tom,  
If you have to ask about CPU levers and Heatsinks you're not ready to build yet. Search (Google) for DIY building a computer then get an old computer and take it to bits and put it back together to learn the basics.  

Regards

Jim

Well assuming a moth board is something to do with butterflies........
A heat sink is a rather handy cooling device that takes heat away from a processor thus enabling it to function better

How does it do this?

Well it transfers heat from your processor through a thermal interface, usually silver or ceramic paste or a heatpad into your heatsink. Heatsinks are usually made of copper or aluminium, because of their high thermal conductivity. A fan then withdraws this heat from the heatsink, and with a well ventilated sytem inlet and exhaust fan(s) pass cool air in and hot air out.

Without a heat sink a processor will overheat and fail in a matter of seconds. Some have been known to catch fire.

The chipset on your motherboard and your graphics card wil have heatsinks too, as does some high end RAM.

Well assuming a moth board is something to do with butterflies........

LOL...Mothboard

Get it already done
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... MBB-P5NQ66