Tom's Hardware: Topic Heat sync trouble?
Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions.
Sign up now! Its free!
It's a heatsink 
A sink is a place that makes things dissapear or move away, like a sink hole.
865 PE is the chipset, and not the actual brand of board.
You could remove the old heatsink, clean up the CPU, and install a new aftermarket cooler if you like. Be warned that the motherboard is getting old and may not work much longer.
A computer that is rebooting could have a bad power supply, or simply be dying as well. Or it could be dying RAM.
Here's a few ideas:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835100010
Arctic Silver ACN-60ML (2-PC-SET) Thermal material Remover & Surface Purifier - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835186134
ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro
Comes with Thermal Interface Material (TIM) pre-applied, so is easy to use for the novice.
A big list of recommended parts
Troubleshooting Guide w/links
Reply to Proximon
Please mind
You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.
Sponsored links
Ad
Related Topics
- Trouble finding second ram slot for Acer Aspire 3003LCi
- RAM Trouble
- Motherboard trouble...Help!
- Trouble connecting HD to motherboard
- Trouble choosing mobo
- HEAT : Intel Chipset vs AMD chipset
- Processor and Memory sync Problems
- KT4A-V trouble.....
- Memory speed trouble
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them
- 01:00 curtains won the Uniformed badge
- 01:00 comcast4life won the Freshman badge
- 01:00 saito80 won the Freshman badge
- 01:00 prathameshdotinfo won the Freshman badge
- 01:00 Loreraven won the Uniformed badge
- 01:00 Socnom won the Freshman badge
- 01:00 T-Bone won the Freshman badge
- 15:16 cappster won the Sophmore badge
- 01:00 hiniberus won the Spy badge
- 01:00 ankpat won the Freshman badge