Dumb Question about Mobo fans/heat sinks
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As H2H says, they come with the CPU.
If it's a retail Intel processor you buy then it will come with the heatsink.
If you buy and OEM chip (one that comes in a static bag, no retail packaging, no fan or heatsink) then you ned a heatsink fan. Usually when you buy OEM they give you one suitable for it.
Coolermasters are good fans, Globalwin etc. When you buy the chip get a retail one, they are usually no more $$ and often less, strangly enough. The Intel chips are pretty forgiving when it comes to H/S and Fans. If it were a thunderbird or duron I'd be more specific on fan choices - Burn baby burn. They run hot.
The PIV heatsinks and chips are like something out of Alice In Wonderland. Teeny little chip, size of a guitar pick and a heat sink the size of a pack of cigarettes(a Canadian pack)...
I don't know why everything has to be so damn small. I guess for notebooks but really.
Make the chip the size of a football and the case the size of a small refrigerator, If I could get 50GHz out of it I wouldn't complain.
Anyway.
If it's a retail Intel processor you buy then it will come with the heatsink.
If you buy and OEM chip (one that comes in a static bag, no retail packaging, no fan or heatsink) then you ned a heatsink fan. Usually when you buy OEM they give you one suitable for it.
Coolermasters are good fans, Globalwin etc. When you buy the chip get a retail one, they are usually no more $$ and often less, strangly enough. The Intel chips are pretty forgiving when it comes to H/S and Fans. If it were a thunderbird or duron I'd be more specific on fan choices - Burn baby burn. They run hot.
The PIV heatsinks and chips are like something out of Alice In Wonderland. Teeny little chip, size of a guitar pick and a heat sink the size of a pack of cigarettes(a Canadian pack)...
I don't know why everything has to be so damn small. I guess for notebooks but really.
Make the chip the size of a football and the case the size of a small refrigerator, If I could get 50GHz out of it I wouldn't complain.
Anyway.
redCashion
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Heheh Emeric, thanks for the info man..
Slackmaster2K
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Emeric, they have to be small because of a limiting factor known as "the speed of light"...well...electricity...close enough. 
I vote that we stop using roman numerals when talking about pentium processors. I just did a search for "PIV"...I was thinking, "what the hell is a PIV? Proximity Induced Vetorizor? Proton Inverting Ventilator?" Hehe.
Slackmaster 2000
I vote that we stop using roman numerals when talking about pentium processors. I just did a search for "PIV"...I was thinking, "what the hell is a PIV? Proximity Induced Vetorizor? Proton Inverting Ventilator?" Hehe.
Slackmaster 2000