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Heatsink and Fan
All CPUs will need a heatsink and
a fan (see Figure 17).
The heatsink draws heat away from the CPU. The fins of the heatsink
and the fan then dissipate this heat into the case. If an Intel Pentium
overheats, it will stop working and your system will freeze up.
Figure 17: Heatsink and fan The heatsink sits on top of the CPU and keeps it cool.
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The AMD CPUs can actually
burn themselves up. They aren’t designed to shut down if they overheat.
This isn’t usually a problem as long as you properly install a
top quality heatsink/fan combination with your AMD Athlon. If you purchase
a retail box version of your CPU, it will include a quality heatsink
and fan.
For the system built in this book,
the Athlon 2000+ XP was purchased in its retail box version which includes
a heatsink and a fan. The package also has detailed and excellent instructions
about installing the CPU and the heatsink/ fan. We’ll show the
installation of the Athlon XP CPU and heatsink/fan later.
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