heatsink removal

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valleymanSS

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sorry about this thread as it may seem a little stupid, but on my dell dimension 8200 i have the stock heatsink, it has a clip on either side and i have flicked these to remove it, but u wont seem to budge and i dont want to damage the cpu. please can some on give me a few instruction on how to remove the heatsink properly.

thanks
 
tristan

tristan

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you need a nice long thin screwdriver. There should be a slot on one side to be able to place it into. You need to use a little force with it so dont be scared =). Push down and push towards the CPU to remove it.
 
tristan

tristan

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what do you have now? im not too familiar with the dell models.
isnt that a 2.5 or so with 533 fsb??
 
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valleymanSS

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no its no i got a 1.9ghz and i think its 400mhzFSB, im not sure what motherboard i have tho, its dell manafactured. its a few years old.
 
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PowerLeap_Tech1

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Hello All,
I work for PowerLeap.com . You have a dimension 8200 its a Socket 478 system that uses Northwood core Pentium 4 processors. The only thing you have to determine is what Front Side Bus(FSB) P4 chip you can use. Because P4 chips come in 400, 533 and 800 FSB Speeds. Right off the bat 800 is out of the question. Because the 8200 only supported 400 and 533 FSB. But you need to know what Chipset Revision your Motherboard has. It will either be i850 or i850E only the E revision can support 533 FSB chips. Hence you can use the 3.06 w/ Hyper Threading (HT). Else you will only be able to use 400 FSB P4 chips. We have up to 2.8 GHz in 400 FSB. We Had 3.0 GHz 400 FSB but i think they are out of stock now. To check your chipset you can use out InSPECS utility at this address.

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For Processor selections from PowerLeap check this address. http://www.powerleap.com/Processors.html

Hope i could be of help.

Best Regards,
Brian
 
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