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    Retail CPU installation

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by buggybug0, Aug 30, 2007.

  1. buggybug0

    buggybug0 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm planning on getting a barebone laptop and install the cpu myself (santa rosa).

    My first question is how difficult is this? what does it involve? (ie. unscrew the back, and align the pins and push it in? or is it something more complicated)

    secondly, there are guys on forums offering cpu pulled from other laptops, I know the cpu are merom, so they are definitely compatible, but those pulled cpus do not include heat sink and fan. Will this be a problem?

    THe reason i'm asking is that I never purchased a barebone laptop, so i dontknow if they come with heat sink and fan just not the cpu or they come with none of the three, in which case i would need a retail boxed cpu (they include heat sink and fan in the box?)
     
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  2. Johnny T

    Johnny T Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    ok first up...notebook CPUs are different, you will use the heatsink or YOUR notebook, since notebook parts are designed specifically. Retail notebook CPUS doesn't include heatsink and fan because there are none to be included as mentioned above. Dont worry about the heatsink and fan, since that part of you notebook.

    2nd, well obviously after you put the CPU in you have to apply thermal paste, (or 1st clean the CPU from previous thermal paste). Then you put the heat sink on!
     
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