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What is a Ziff?

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I've read a couple reviews on coolers that mentioned removing the "ziff" on the motherboard when
installing the heatsink.
Unfortunately, there were no pictures, so I have no idea what a ziff is.

I've googled it...to no avail.

My guess is the thing that locks the CPU in place...? Is that even removeable?

Any clues?

------------------------------ i7 920, E5300
GTX260, HD4870, HD4830

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Are you talking about ZIF? That would be Socket A/478/939,etc.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Insertion_Force

Message edited by Shadow703793 on 06-28-2009 at 05:17:33 AM

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The guy was talking about a Ziff for the 1366 i7 socket...?

------------------------------ i7 920, E5300
GTX260, HD4870, HD4830
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He was probably referring to the lock-down mechanism as the ZIF because he never fully got what ZIF was all about.

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