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Old 01-09-2009, 05:10 PM   #12
MissKat
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Originally Posted by GoFlambe View Post

I'm not sure what you mean by the heatsink is dying though. On my model, the heatsink is this massive hunk of metal that attaches to the CPU and lives under a green duct that connects to the back case fan and it's the back case fan that pulls the air out and shunts it to the back of the case.
Yes thats the part im talking about, the huge hunk of metal that has a green plastic end on it. Isnt that the heatsink? I was told that it was but i could be wrong. How would you go about replacing that?

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it wouldn't be running Vista, and to be honest, you probably wouldn't want to anyways)
Whys that? Cause vista is a RAM hog?

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