A friend of mine has asked me to look over an ebay 'budget' gaming PC for him, as he's an utter novice when it comes to them, I was looking it over, and for the money they're asking, it seemed fine to let his kids play with (basically all it was gonna be used for) but then I noticed the CPU has no heatsink, no fan, nothing. Doesn't even look like there's a connection on the Motherboard for them. The ebay description is kinda lacking, it's just called an 'Intel Core 2 Duo' but I -think- it's an e7400 going by the 2.8GHz speed, it's just a best guess.
Now I know that not using heatsinks is a great way to kill a CPU, I'm not a total novice, but this board seems to have nothing to even connect a fan with, so I thought it best to check with you fine people. Seems fishy to me but there could well be something you know that I don't.
Thanks for your time.
Edit: I may have made a slight error, but again, best to check;
I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that the black square on the right hand side is the CPU, I'm looking at it now and I'm thinking maybe it's a motherboard chip (not sure what they're called) that relates to the MB and not the CPU?
If it is I genuinely apologise, it's just I don't want my friend to get ripped off, and the picture isn't that great.
Now I know that not using heatsinks is a great way to kill a CPU, I'm not a total novice, but this board seems to have nothing to even connect a fan with, so I thought it best to check with you fine people. Seems fishy to me but there could well be something you know that I don't.
Thanks for your time.
Edit: I may have made a slight error, but again, best to check;
I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that the black square on the right hand side is the CPU, I'm looking at it now and I'm thinking maybe it's a motherboard chip (not sure what they're called) that relates to the MB and not the CPU?
If it is I genuinely apologise, it's just I don't want my friend to get ripped off, and the picture isn't that great.
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