OT: replacement fan for an Intel heatsink

[Andrej Marjan]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> Replacing the fan on a heat sink is probably more work than replacing the
> whole heatsink.  Turning four little mount tabs and lifting a complete
> heatsink off and putting on a new one and clicking it in place is less
> work than trying to find and replace a (hopefully) screwed on fan from
> a heatsink assembly.
>
> Now back when heatsinks had clips that had to be put on tabs on the cpu
> socket, life was a lot harder, but they don't do that on intel's anymore.
>

Stock heatsinks for core2's come with clip-on fans, so it would take about
30 sec. to swap it, assuming a replacement could be found.

That said, since I can't find a replacement fan for the stock fan, I'll have
to swap the whole thing out.
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