Can you remove a fan from a heatsink and still use it?

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
G

Glaciator Gaming

Honorable
Dec 29, 2013
14
0
10,510
Hello toms hardware, I have a question. Can you remove a fan from an Intel heatsink and still use it on your CPU? Also, Is it possible to place a heatsink on top of another heatsink? Thanks.
 
Solution
A


wont work that way.you need the fan as well as the heatsink.you can have the biggest heatsink you can get into your case but without a fan to ventilate and dissapate the heat it will reach a saturation point,where the heatsink cant get rid of the heat as fast as it builds up.im sure there are better ways to explain this but its all i got right now.

Sort by date Sort by votes
davy rockstar

davy rockstar

Honorable
Mar 28, 2013
297
0
10,810
welll yeah you can use thee fan for other puposes but the CPU fans have 4 pin connector and regular fans only have 3 and cannot control the speed...
if you say the heatsink yes you can but you need to use ALWAYS thermal paste

no you cant place two heatsinks together... if you need a better one you need tu buy a better one..
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
A

aldan

Splendid
Apr 15, 2013
4,002
29
24,640


wont work that way.you need the fan as well as the heatsink.you can have the biggest heatsink you can get into your case but without a fan to ventilate and dissapate the heat it will reach a saturation point,where the heatsink cant get rid of the heat as fast as it builds up.im sure there are better ways to explain this but its all i got right now.

 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
A

aldan

Splendid
Apr 15, 2013
4,002
29
24,640
that depends on whether you want to fan to push air into the heatsink or pull it out.if your cpu heatsink is close to your exhaust fan i would make it pull air out. if not set it to push air into the heatsink. just start your computer with the fan plugged in but not installed to see which way is which.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom