Lower the CPU until the pins are in the holes. Lock the CPU in place. Apply a thermal pad or thermal paste to the exposed ...

Either shouldn't be of great concern for most PC owners as the thermal paste will likely be changed before it reaches a degraded state. The pressure at which the CPU cooler is secured to the ...

Before you can fit the CPU, you need to identify the socket on the motherboard ... the cooler installation manual may not cover. Thermal paste is of paramount importance as no cooler surface ...

CPU brackets use a combination of pressure and some sort of thermal media or paste to fill in any gaps between the CPU case and the heat sink. Intel’s LGA1700 bracket is an example, but there ...

[Jared Bouck] over at InventGeek writes about his experience making his own thermal paste. Diamonds can be up to five times as thermally conductive as silver, the primary ingredient in most ...

The CPU socket is a rectangular portion of the motherboard ... from the CPU to the cooler effectively. That’s where the thermal paste or heatpad comes in. A number of CPU coolers will have ...

Not only does it accommodate the latest mainstream sockets, but it also comes ... nuts until we ran out of threads. Applying thermal paste to the CPU allows us to set the head unit in place ...

The long-awaited Core Ultra Desktop Processors (Series 2) have finally hit the market, and we’ve gathered extensive ...

These coolers support a wide range of CPU sockets, including Intel's LGA 1700 ... pump and a convex cold plate that has pre-applied thermal paste arranged in an optimized pattern.

They may include integral fans for active cooling and often fit standard CPU sockets. Computers are carefully engineered to generate as little heat as possible, as high temperatures damage ...

Fifteen years have come to this. The latest from Noctua, the NH-D15 G2 LBC CPU air cooler, comes with huge expectations, and ...

Officially, Intel recommends an MSRP between $309 and $319, with the first Core Ultra 5 245K listing selling for $328.99 at Newegg. It's technically slightly cheaper than the $319 to $329 launch MSRP ...