A year ago I replaced my desktop's dual core with a quad core, making me so happy I forgot about the increasingly loud fan which had no place to oil. I paid close attention to cleaning the old gunk off the heatsink, then took a Dremel wire wheel to really encourage the surfaces for Arctic Silver (the metallic kind). Now it's definitly time for a new fan, but it's not obvious if this fan is epoxied to the heat sink or what:
This is pretty much it: Metal screws holding assembly to motherboard (not clips) and I couldn't see screws holding the fan to the heatsink yesterday outside in the sun with a magnifying glass. To be fair they're still in the case.
Wondered if any of you have experience with HP Benicia fans like that? Too bad my AMD socket 939 fan isn't swappable or I'd change it in a minute.
This is pretty much it: Metal screws holding assembly to motherboard (not clips) and I couldn't see screws holding the fan to the heatsink yesterday outside in the sun with a magnifying glass. To be fair they're still in the case.
Wondered if any of you have experience with HP Benicia fans like that? Too bad my AMD socket 939 fan isn't swappable or I'd change it in a minute.