I was able to get a new heatsink for my desktop computer this past weekend. It’s a beautiful copper coil sort, totally better than the old one that serviced my Athlon 64 processor for so long. The processor is running @ 38 d. Celsius thus far, great for putting it in with the new heatsink just the other day.<\/p>\n
The best thing about it is that it can fit onto other processors, so as long as it lives I can switch out my mb to something better and get a better processor and keep using the nice copper coil heatsink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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