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Article #3106Re: Heatsinks for MMX?
From: Matthew Smith
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:00
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Hi No special heatsink and fan required, although it is best to use a modern type, as they have plastic/metal clips that snap onto the side of the ZIF (CPU) socket. They dont cost very much. Hope this helps. rune.raion@worldnet.att.net wrote: > I am putting together a system that I want to use a 200MMX CPU in. > > I am concerned about cooling and note that MMX's don't have the plain > flat top that earlier Pentiums had. How do you safely/reliably attach > a cooling heatsink/fan to them? The fans I see around here are flat > as though they were made for 486/586 style encasements. Will they work > with an MMX or is there something special available? > > Is there a danger of the regular heatsink causing shorts on the exposed > metal parts? > > Thanks. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > S P A M M E R S > > Any and all commercial mail and offers sent to this address will be > considered as having been submitted for evaluation and review. A charge of > US$75 per hour will apply for such consultations. Sending such mail to this > address constitutes agreement to these terms.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c6a1,6e4c6e6084aaa364 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c6a1,public X-Google-Thread: 112c77,6e4c6e6084aaa364 X-Google-Attributes: gid112c77,public X-Google-Thread: 10c1e0,6e4c6e6084aaa364 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c1e0,public X-Google-Thread: 110292,6e4c6e6084aaa364 X-Google-Attributes: gid110292,public From: Matthew Smith <imageo@anglianet.co.uk> Subject: Re: Heatsinks for MMX? Date: 1997/10/13 Message-ID: <34426C41.1A013F9C@anglianet.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 280169136 References: <875557591snz@longley.demon.co.uk> <60pjs7$m3v@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> To: rune.raion@worldnet.att.net Organization: Wisper Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.intel,fido7.hardw.pc.cpu,Intel.microprocessors.pentium