[geeks] Heat sink on a P3

[hike]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> The fan died on a P3 I use for serving music and other miscellenous
> storage.
>
> I bought a new fan/heatsink combo at a local computer shop.  The new
> heatsink seems a little loose, meaning that I can slide it around a
> small amount even though the clip is on it.  It does have silicone
> thermal paste between the die and heatsink.
>
> My question is should it conduct heat well enough even though it isn't
> massively tight like other heatsink clips I've dealt with (like the one
> I took off, or the ones on the P4s at work).
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the heatsink should be tight against the cpu.
a loose heatsink will not conduct heat as it should or as is needed.