CPU fan and heat sink
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 2:33 am
Do you need both of these, i dont want to sound to stupid if that ship hasent already set sail. I mean i was looking at some barebone kits and wanted to konw what else i would need.
All/Most come with cpu/mobo, ram, case, keyboard, speakers, and cpu fan.
It isnt really clear to me if a cpu fan is the same thing as a heat sink and if youd still nead thermal gel with it... what do you do with the thermal gel, spead it over the heatsink??? Does it go on the CPU fan too if its not the same thing as a heatsink.
Also once dragon said something about not bottlenecking your system... he also explained something like to keep everything 1:1, ( I HAVE NO IDEA WTF THAT MEANS ANYMORE) so re explain please.
All/Most come with cpu/mobo, ram, case, keyboard, speakers, and cpu fan.
It isnt really clear to me if a cpu fan is the same thing as a heat sink and if youd still nead thermal gel with it... what do you do with the thermal gel, spead it over the heatsink??? Does it go on the CPU fan too if its not the same thing as a heatsink.
Also once dragon said something about not bottlenecking your system... he also explained something like to keep everything 1:1, ( I HAVE NO IDEA WTF THAT MEANS ANYMORE) so re explain please.