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Heatsink compount or special heat pad. The reason for this is to form a tight thermal bond between the processor (CPU = Central Processing Unit) and heatsink for the best transfer of heat away from the CPU.
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∙ 11y agoYou have to apply a small layer of thermal grease or thermal paste before you install the heat sink on to the CPU. You can add it on either the heat sink or the CPU, I prefer the CPU.
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When upgrading a CPU what must be applied between the new CPU and the heat sink fan?
Thermal grease to allow heat to transfer to the heat sink.
How do you cool CPU?
With a heat sink and fan.
What is the main function of the UPS?
what is the function of the heat sink fan? *well the CPU generates heat and in order for the CPU to remain in a safe temperature zone a haet sink is added on top of the CPU.
How do you clean heat sink in CPU?
Air Compresser
Why is it important to double-check the bottom of the heat sink before attaching it to the CPU socket?
It is important to double check the bottom of heat sink before attaching it to the CPU socket so as to ensure proper insulation. This one of the basic safety precautions in connecting a CPU.
What you used with the CPU heat sink or fan and what is the difference between them?
Heatsinks and fans are used on CPUs to help cool them down so that they are not destroyed. A heatsink is a piece of metal placed on the CPU to distribute heat away from the CPU itself.
What is normally applied to the heat sink of a CPU to insure good heat?
Thermal compound is usually applied to a CPU's heat sink to allow heat from the CPU to be transferred to the heat sink more effectively. The most commonly used brand by PC enthusiasts is Arctic Silver 5, a silver-based compound that transfers heat extremely well due to it's metallic base.
Which objects will be touching thermal paste?
Heat sink and CPU
What is the main way that thermal compound helps heat dissipation for a CPU?
It transfers the heat between the two and it fills in the microscopic and not so microscopic bumps and valleys between the CPU and heat sink. That's why you only need just enough to fill the gap but not have too much in between.
What does heat sink do?
It helps conduct heat away from the object on which it is placed. Without the heat sink, a computer CPU would get too hot to function.
What are the metal fins on top of the CPU called?
Its called a heat sink
What does a CPU heat sink do?
nothig rely people say its dangrous but it not
