grams!!

hippopotumus · Dec 11, 2002

i just got my sk-7 and vantec tornado in today..(ordered sunday, recieved today tuesday THANKS newegg!!)

fan is 175grams...sk-7 is alot more. that won't crush my delicate amd xp 2000+ !?!?!!?! first time putting on a heatsink...i'll take my time. but these things seem really heavy

Pouey · Dec 11, 2002

Shouldn't be too heavy for your proc at all. As long as you put on the heatsink right, you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

Toysrme · Dec 11, 2002

DO NOT tip the heatsink or let it rock while installing and you'll come out fine. If you let it slip be wary of a chipped core. Just thought I'd put the fear of god in ya!

In all seriousness, just take your time and keep it level. You'll turn out just fine.

This may sound like a stupid question, but do you have any thermal compound to use with it?

-Toysrme

Caffinehog · Dec 11, 2002

The clip and your installation of the heatsink put a lot more pressure on your CPU than the weight of it. If you're worried, that core can take several kilograms of pressure as long as you mount the heatsink correctly. It's poor heatsink installation that cracks cores.
The big risk with heavy heatsinks is in moving the computer around. If you bang it around too much, it could break the tabs off the socket. That's why that heatsink uses all three tabs. This greatly reduces the risk of that. The only thing better is using the four holes in the motherboard, and that's more dangerous to instal because of the risk of uneven pressure.
IMHO, you should be perfectly fine with that heatsink.

Caffinehog · Dec 11, 2002

P.S. 175 grams is about 6 oz, or about half the weight of a can of pop. That's not too heavy. There are many heatsinks that weigh over 300g.

snvpa · Dec 11, 2002

150 grams is just the weight of the fan though. the sink weighs bout 400 if I'm not mistaken totla bout 550 grams. thats alot more than a can of pop.

TheCor4D · Dec 11, 2002

it is soda, not pop

Toysrme · Dec 11, 2002

If you live in the south, it's still coke or pepsi.

Pouey · Dec 11, 2002

Pop is gross

I.M.O.G. · Dec 12, 2002

i like popsicles

JimmyG · Dec 12, 2002

If you live in Texas it is Coke no matter what the label or type!

ib69nu · Dec 12, 2002

and a pop doesnt weigh 12 oz. there are 12 fluid ounces in a pop. i am gonna step out on a limb and say that a can of pop actually wieghs about 1.5 - 2 lbs. if i am wrong please correct me

[EG]~NaTz~ · Dec 12, 2002

he is corret fluid ounces are vlume not weight and volume is the amount of space something takes up...
then u converting grams to ounces really boggles me why not keep it simple and in metric u went from metric to what we call standard...

Pouey · Dec 12, 2002

metric>everything else. I dunno why the US just won't change, it's so dumb here

Skulemate · Dec 12, 2002

Not quite, ib69nu. A can of pop is 355mL, which is roughly equal to 355g of weight (assuming that pop has a density basically the same as water)... that gives a result of around eight tenths of a pound.

Quite a threadjacking this has been, eh...

Sonny · Dec 12, 2002

hippopotumus said:
i just got my sk-7 and vantec tornado in today..(ordered sunday, recieved today tuesday THANKS newegg!!)

fan is 175grams...sk-7 is alot more. that won't crush my delicate amd xp 2000+ !?!?!!?! first time putting on a heatsink...i'll take my time. but these things seem really heavy

Think of it this way, AMD recomends 14lbs - 24lbs clamp pressure on the chip so the weight of the HSF doesnt really pose a threat.

Caffinehog · Dec 12, 2002

ib69nu said:
and a pop doesnt weigh 12 oz. there are 12 fluid ounces in a pop. i am gonna step out on a limb and say that a can of pop actually wieghs about 1.5 - 2 lbs. if i am wrong please correct me

*Pulls out hydrometer from beer making, plops it into 2 liter bottle of rootbeer*

Hmm... density 1.05.
1.05 X 12 Fl. Oz. = 12.6 oz.

OK, it's more than 12 oz.

snvpa · Dec 12, 2002

wow talk about thread hijacking. only aty overclockers forums wil you have people not only arguing about the word for soda/pop/coke/pepsi/ but also its density/weight and the fact that the US is still in the stone age by not adopting the metric system.

Caffinehog · Dec 13, 2002

snvpa said:
wow talk about thread hijacking. only aty overclockers forums wil you have people not only arguing about the word for soda/pop/coke/pepsi/ but also its density/weight and the fact that the US is still in the stone age by not adopting the metric system.

Only here. Other forums? You'd be flamed or banned.

OOh... hey, I think I just added another topic to this thread!

But back to the original question....
There are lots of heavier heatsinks out there. Waterblocks can be as bad, if not worse. Basically, you're perfectly safe unless you are taking your computer on a long, bumpy journey.

Tygur · Dec 13, 2002

ok,
1. It's soda, not pop.

2. In the US, we like to do things OUR way! You can keep your metric system.
(just kidding - i don't think either is better, they're both just different)

3. As was already mentioned, that clip will put far more pressure on the cpu than the actual weight of the heatsink/fan ever will.

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