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Originally Posted by onad0301
i was under the assumption if i removed the fan... the pad was unuseable and i would have to use heatsink then....correct?
blue.... i am using the pad now
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In order to cool the processor, you must use a type of thermal paste or pad (the pad that came on the bottom of your CPU), a heat sink, and a fan blowing at the heat sink. All three. The paste/pad spreads the heat. The heat sink trasnfers the heat away from the CPU. The fan cools the CPU.
kram
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