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<blockquote data-quote="pgh13" data-source="post: 141056" data-attributes="member: 191774"><p>It's easier than that these days...The fan clips on to a plastic bracket which is around the CPU and then there are 2 levers that you operate to push the heatsink hard against the CPU. If you buy a retail pack, the cpu will come with fan and heat sink. Socket 478 processors are being replaced with LGA775 so you may have difficulty locating one new and may have to resort to E----.</p><p>As you can buy a complete new entry level machine for around £200 that will probably outperform your old machine you may want to consider that route.</p><p></p><p>As regards the Hard disk, the standard cable has 3 connectors; one to the motherboard plus 2 drives, but you may find that already has HD and CD on it.</p><p></p><p>In that case you need another IDE cable to go on the spare IDE connector on the motherboard. You could put your spare hard drive on that or you could move the CD to the new cable putting the 'new' hard disk where the CD came from. If you do that you'll need to make sure that the new hard disk is jumpered to slave.</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps</p><p></p><p>Peter</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pgh13, post: 141056, member: 191774"] It's easier than that these days...The fan clips on to a plastic bracket which is around the CPU and then there are 2 levers that you operate to push the heatsink hard against the CPU. If you buy a retail pack, the cpu will come with fan and heat sink. Socket 478 processors are being replaced with LGA775 so you may have difficulty locating one new and may have to resort to E----. As you can buy a complete new entry level machine for around £200 that will probably outperform your old machine you may want to consider that route. As regards the Hard disk, the standard cable has 3 connectors; one to the motherboard plus 2 drives, but you may find that already has HD and CD on it. In that case you need another IDE cable to go on the spare IDE connector on the motherboard. You could put your spare hard drive on that or you could move the CD to the new cable putting the 'new' hard disk where the CD came from. If you do that you'll need to make sure that the new hard disk is jumpered to slave. Hope that helps Peter [/QUOTE]
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