Do you attach heat sink before installing cpu

[Keltron]

Which way is easier to install?
install the cpu , then install the heatsink or attach the heatsink on cpu first

 

[XRaider]

Cpu first, then apply thermal grease/pad (whatever your pleasure ) then the HSF

 

[Keltron]

isnt that easier to attach hsf when cpu is off the mobo

 

[Swanny]

You can't attach the HSF combo when the CPU is off the MB. The clips hook onto the actual socket, so you have to put the CPU in first, apply thermal grease, then attach the HSF combo.

Edited for spellings.

 

[SiLow]

It depends if you have a slot or socket mobo. It's easier to install HSF on slot first. For sockets, you have to put in the processor first because the HSF clips onto the mobo.

 

[XRaider]

Well no.. did you physically try to do that yet? If you tried to do that man, you would end up sliding the hsf around on top of the cpu, trying to line up/attach the hsf clamp to the cpu socket. I personally think it's easier to attach the hsf after the cpu is installed w/ thermal paste on it. Maybe someone else knows differently.

 

[XRaider]

SiLow is cooking with crisco over there. Good point, Slot or socket..?

 

[SiLow]

I think yall are confused, because everything ur saying is right, but yall are talkin about socket cpu's and mobos. Clearly, he hasn't stated if he has a slot or socket cpu/mobo.

 

[Keltron]

I didnt think anyone would be dump enough to install a Slotted cpu and then attach the HSF

 

[Doctorweir]

Hopefully no one...:Q

 

[SiLow]

So was your question rhetorical in the first place? Anyway, you didn't state whether you had a slot or socket cpu so people were confused.

 

[mitaiwan82]

did you call yourself dump, keltron?

 

[tjll11a]

how do you put the fan on first. Little hard without those clips.......... Yes put the cpu on first

 

[Keltron]

i thought i was talkin about you mitaiwan

 

[Fuzzmuncher]

:disgust: back to kindergarten all over again. tsk tsk tsk

 

[TuffGuy]

me thinks Keltron is an idiot.:frown:

 

[Swanny]

Hmmm.... All we need now is WSPTrooper in this thread on Keltron's side:Q That could really get us back to kindergarten

 

[avx]

i usually dump my "slotted" cpu in favor of a slot cpu. but i'm just dump