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Posted by: Syntho on 2016-08-10 10:38:33
I just bought a NewerTech 400/200 upgrade CPU that doesn't have the heatsink attached. I've used another one that had a huge heatsink on it so I don't think it's normal for a CPU like this to be missing it... unless I'm wrong?
http://i.imgur.com/8seqxu3.jpg
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/lMMAAOSwqfNXkjuM/s-l1600.jpg
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2016-08-10 10:40:50
That is totally missing the big purple heatsink.
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Posted by: Syntho on 2016-08-10 11:04:21
Are you sure it's purple? Never seen it that color.
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Posted by: Compgeke on 2016-08-10 13:25:20
Sonnet used the purple heatsinks. In this case it's just missing a plain heatsink, probably black.
To use this you will need a heatsink. What colour it is doesn't matter. If you have a small heatsink off an old motherboard northbridge or something you can get away with zip tying it on, a bit sketchy but don't clamp hard enough to break the die. Finding the original heatsink\clips will prove difficult.
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2016-08-11 11:24:03
ya my newer tech is silver, but it is missing the heatsink.
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Posted by: Syntho on 2016-08-12 09:51:19
Which speed is it? Mine is a G3 400/200
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Posted by: l008com on 2016-08-24 02:31:21
I believe I had a G3 CPU upgrades way back in the day, that came with just a flat piece of aluminum as the heat sink, no fins. But it seemed to work, it had a pretty good surface area and it was only a G3, I think 500Mhz. But yours is definitely missing the heat sink. I suspect that that chip would fry itself if you used it like that. Hopefully the place you got it from didn't test it without the heat sink, that could be bad.
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