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Posted: May 4th, 2001 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen CAK38 (cont.)  When you receive the CAK38, the bottom comes with some basic white heatsink compound that I recommend removing. It’s not even applied smoothly, but it’s still better than the pink chewing gum that comes on a lot of heatsinks these days. If you don’t have separate heatsink compound, just use the one that comes on the CAK38. It’s not bad, but it’s not fantastic either. The bottom finish of the CAK38 is smoother than most aluminum heatsinks I see and because copper is softer than aluminum, it’s easier to smooth down with fine grit sand paper. As you can see, it’s a little difficult to see the stereo jack in the surface, but it’s still smooth, just not as smooth as Alpha’s heatsinks. If you’re unfamiliar with what I’m talking about here, please take a look at my Heatsink Buyer’s Guide. It has informative information about what you should look for and watch out for when purchasing a heatsink.  There’s an issue of user-friendly clips on all Global WIN heatsinks that need to be addressed. There’s a small finger tab that is suppose to make it easy for you to clip the heatsink onto your socket but it seems to make it more difficult. Also, if you’re installing the CAK38 on a tower case, make sure to lay the tower down horizontally to install the heatsink. It’s quite heavy and I don’t recommend you installing it onto your precious CPU. If you mishandle it, it can fall and smash into the expension cards below -- most likely your video card. |
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