Installing CPU Coolers: The good, The Bad and The Ugly
Posted on 2nd Dec 2009 at 11:24 by Mark Mackay with 22 comments
The first CPU cooler I ever installed was an AMD reference HSF when I upgraded my Athlon XP processor to a superior model. It was in fact my first ever PC upgrade. I remember carefully (and perhaps a little nervously) placing the blocky aluminium heatsink in position, hooking both sides around the socket, pushing the retention arm down and thinking, "hmph - that wasn’t so hard."



