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Question on Intel Boxed Heatsink

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briant73

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I currently have an Intel Retail Heatsink from a Celeron 2.0ghz retail box and have a few questions.

1) I was wondering if this is the heatsink Intel uses on the Pentium 4 2.4c, 2.6c, 2.8c, 3.2 or do they have a different heatsink for those models?

2) My next question is can the heatsink be taken off a processor and reused with the stock thermal pad or do you need a new pad/grease?

I'm not looking to overclocck just run the processors at normal speeds.

Thanks
 
You can re-use the standard black thermal pad. I would leave it on if you have a boxed cpu with 3 year warranty. My normal temps range from 45-55 celcius.
 
1) The design of the Intel retail HSF changed when the 3.06 was released and is the same design now used on the 3.0C and faster CPU's. It has a copper insert in the base, redesigned fins and a more powerful fan. All this info is available (somewhere) on Intel's site, buried in some pdf file. The earlier, all aluminum version of the HSF was supposedly unchanged from the 1.8A to the 2.8C but if you put a whole bunch of them together in one room and compare them you'll see that there's at least several different versions of them. They have different numbers of fins and slighly different desigens. It seems to be random too, like they're just sourcing them from different suppliers and use whatever they pull off the shelf. There's different models of fans on them as well, at least 2 , maybe more.
 
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