[plug] P4 1.4

Sham Chukoury chukours at ses.curtin.edu.au
Tue Dec 16 00:51:55 WST 2003


On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 20:40, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> Just received a machine with a p4 1.4ghz, with a burnt out mobo.. all I need
> to do is buy a new motherboard, and put it in and my new server will be good
> to go. Is there anything I need to take into consideration when putting the
> CPU from the old motherboard to the new one? Will the thermal paste need
> redoing? Or can I simply just take off the fan, pull out the cpu - and put
> both back on, with the new mobo? After all, don't wanna fry the chip ;-)

Yeah, get something like a Thermaltake Spark 7 heatsink/fan on there. ;)

Or just replace the thermal pad (or complement it?) with some new
thermal paste.

§:)




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