Check out this cpu... a pentium processor with a blue heatsink?????
I have never seen anything like this before.... does it look OEM or something that someone modded?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Pentium-133-Mhz … 300869734042%26
(just curious)
This one came from an old Gateway 2000, just a standard P1 133 and the cooler pops off without much of a fuss.
On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.
Yeah I had a HP Vectra with a big green passive heatsink like that. OEM's avoiding moving parts at all cost I suppose - not a bad move, that Vectra was a tuff as nails.
Life? Don't talk to me about life.
Most OEM P60, P66 chips had a huge heatsink glued to them, when the case fan that blew air over the heatsink died so did the CPU (but those systems lasted a long time).
I think Heatsink and fan combo were popular with OEMs when they figured out that the systems would not be run for more then a few years before an upgrade (and warrenties were only 1 year anyway).
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