Heya, this might be a really stupid question but just wanna make sure I don't screw up a working comp ><
Basically running an old socket A machine at the minute, and everything is starting to reach the end of it's life - Northbridge fan is making a racket every so often (will grab a Zalman Passive one).
But also it means my heatsink is running warm and Im not sure why other than the fan might be going (50-59 ish on a reboot after playing AoC for about an hour (and spending all morning instaling/updating it
).
So not running too cool, however you can't seem to find good Socket A heatsinks for love nor money. So could I jsut say, stick a 60mm Delta case fan and replace the fan I have at the minute or are they not designed for it?
Don't wanna end up melting the fan chassis to heatsink or worse destroying a working CPU.
** It's not dust or airflow etc got an Eclipse Case and all the cables are outta the way, and hovered/blasted all the dust out the fins on the heatsink and used Arctic Silver thermal paste **
Cheers
Basically running an old socket A machine at the minute, and everything is starting to reach the end of it's life - Northbridge fan is making a racket every so often (will grab a Zalman Passive one).
But also it means my heatsink is running warm and Im not sure why other than the fan might be going (50-59 ish on a reboot after playing AoC for about an hour (and spending all morning instaling/updating it
).So not running too cool, however you can't seem to find good Socket A heatsinks for love nor money. So could I jsut say, stick a 60mm Delta case fan and replace the fan I have at the minute or are they not designed for it?
Don't wanna end up melting the fan chassis to heatsink or worse destroying a working CPU.
** It's not dust or airflow etc got an Eclipse Case and all the cables are outta the way, and hovered/blasted all the dust out the fins on the heatsink and used Arctic Silver thermal paste **
Cheers
