December 02, 2009
Installing CPU Coolers: The good, The Bad and The Ugly
Posted by: admin : Category: Technology News
The first CPU cooler I ever installed was an AMD reference HSF when I upgraded my Athlon XP processor to a superior model. It was in fact my first ever PC upgrade. I remember carefully (and perhaps a little nervously) placing the blocky aluminium heatsink in position, hooking both sides around the socket, pushing the retention arm down and thinking, “hmph – that wasn’t so hard.“