Installing the heatsink, Installing the motherboard, User’s manual – Intel FB24624100 User Manual

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4: Installing The Motherboard

User’s Manual

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Installing the Heatsink

Once you have installed the CPU, you must install a
Fan/Heatsink. The Fan/Heatsink clips into to the Reten-
tion Mechanism attached to the board via its integrated
retaining clip assembly.

Apply Thermal Interface Material
Before you install the Fan/Heatsink you must apply the
Thermal Interface Material (TIM) that is supplied in an
applicator with boxed Intel Pentium 4 processors (or an
exact equivalent) to the top of the installed CPU. If the
Fan/Heatsink already has a patch of TIM on its under-
side, you don’t need to apply any additional TIM to the
CPU. We assume here that you have TIM in an Intel-
supplied applicator. To apply TIM to the CPU do as fol-
lows:

1. Apply all of the TIM in the applicator to the center

of the CPU’s top plate.

Align and place on
top of the CPU

TIM applicator

Step 1:
Apply TIM if needed.

2. Do not spread the TIM around. When you place the

Heatsink on top of the CPU the material will dis-
perse evenly.

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