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Cpu cooling fan
The cpu cooling fan went out on my desktop system.
I am sure glad that it told me and shut down the system instead of letting the cpu get fried. Can I just re-attach the new fan or should I put on some new cpu thermal paste ? Thanks. |
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Cpu cooling fan
Andy wrote:
The cpu cooling fan went out on my desktop system. I am sure glad that it told me and shut down the system instead of letting the cpu get fried. Can I just re-attach the new fan or should I put on some new cpu thermal paste ? Thanks. Depends on your fan and heat sink. Some fans come off and the heat sink stays on the cpu. Some come off the cpu as one unit and then you can disassemble fan and sink. If the heat sink comes off the cpu, then you should clean the solidified crud off the cpu and install new thermal compound. |
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 20:45:42 -0800 (PST), Andy
wrote: The cpu cooling fan went out on my desktop system. I am sure glad that it told me and shut down the system instead of letting the cpu get fried. Can I just re-attach the new fan or should I put on some new cpu thermal paste ? Thanks. If you do the former, you'll probably be happier if you install a program to monitor CPU temp, and to buzz or ring when it's too high. The big problem I had with the program I used, which now I can't remember, is that *I* had to pick the temperature. Heck, I don't know what temp is too hot. I just picked what it was running at and added 5 or 10 degrees to that, but I had no idea if that was right. |
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On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 11:56:13 PM UTC-6, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Andy wrote: The cpu cooling fan went out on my desktop system. I am sure glad that it told me and shut down the system instead of letting the cpu get fried. Can I just re-attach the new fan or should I put on some new cpu thermal paste ? Thanks. Depends on your fan and heat sink. Some fans come off and the heat sink stays on the cpu. Some come off the cpu as one unit and then you can disassemble fan and sink. If the heat sink comes off the cpu, then you should clean the solidified crud off the cpu and install new thermal compound. Thanks. The thermal compound was not solidified. You must have worked on some pretty old computers to have seen that. I ordered some gold paste for $2.80. Andy |
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On 3/4/2014 10:24 PM, micky wrote:
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 20:45:42 -0800 (PST), Andy wrote: The cpu cooling fan went out on my desktop system. I am sure glad that it told me and shut down the system instead of letting the cpu get fried. Can I just re-attach the new fan or should I put on some new cpu thermal paste ? Thanks. If you do the former, you'll probably be happier if you install a program to monitor CPU temp, and to buzz or ring when it's too high. The big problem I had with the program I used, which now I can't remember, is that *I* had to pick the temperature. Heck, I don't know what temp is too hot. I just picked what it was running at and added 5 or 10 degrees to that, but I had no idea if that was right. I usually use the Tmax information for the CPU and set the monitor at Tmax minus 5 deg C. GR |
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