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What is this mainbord component?

19-06-2007 9:52pm

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alan4cult

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Hello,

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#2 19-06-2007 9:55pm

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It's a heatsink, which cools the chip it's attached to.

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#3 19-06-2007 9:56pm

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alan4cult wrote:

Hello,

It's the northbridge chipset heatsink.
This is needed to cool the chipset beneath it as it gets quite hot.
Many either replace them and install a better one - depends on how good a job it's doing or you can add a fan to it, which will add to noise factor.

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#4 19-06-2007 9:59pm

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Thanks

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