Just needs to drop the voltage and the clock down to 500Mhz and then no heatsink required.
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Ah a mainboard with a dust protection-layer.
Wifi cooling!
Took me a second, but not more than three. I snorted.
Someone stole the heatpipe!
Is that a strap with a buckle holding it on?
No that's a regular clip for mounting the cooler onto the cpu, it clips around those black things around the socket. That's been the standard for decades and only recently has it gotten less common. I think the cooler is screwed onto the case with woodscrews directly into the plastic of the fan.
Fucking ~~magnets~~ heatsinks, why won't they work!?
DIWHY does that look like an old AMD socket? (Or lga 775)
AMD socket A had the noses for attaching the cooler directly at the CPU socket. This one has an AM4 socket where the cooler is supposed to be attached to the two black supports above and below the CPU socket.
I am 90% sure this is an Intel system judging by the cooler.
You'd be mistaken, Intel hasn't had a clip mounting system since socket 370 P3 days. Even P4 on 423 had 4 corner mounting systems and all of the Intel systems had them since.
The cheapo aluminum coolers from Intel always had that rotated design to get a little bit more surface area in the same volume. With the age of this system Intel had copper pucks in the middle of their heatsinks. It wasn't till later they went full aluminum. This is very clearly an AM4 motherboard as seen by the mounting.
Like the other commenter pointed out, it's an A320M-C board, it says right on it.
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Looks like an ASUS A320M-C based on the very hard to read text and the layout.
https://motherboarddb.com/motherboards/378/
So an early AMD AM4 motherboard.
I agree, the cooler block itself looks very much like the reference cooler that came with my boxed AMD 2600x processor, and the heat spreader of the cpu and the socket look like the ones in the pc i am writing this from, which is an AM4 system.
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Is that a normal place to put the cooler on intel systems?
Do I detect the need for a whoosh community?
If the item fits, it must belong there.
Ignore the heatsink cutting your hand and making it very difficult
Ok you guys like to laugh at this but now tell me how else is the fan is supposed to stay cool after absorbing all the heat from the electronics?
Seems gtg to me, no issues
Also not a good time to bareback.