hsf mounting bracket for Intel cpus

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alc101ma

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Hi Guys,

A family member was having problems with their Dell Dimension 2350. It was shutting off all the time. I checked the system out and one corner of the heatsink mounting bracket (that the Intel processors use) had broken off. Of course the heatsink wasn't making good contact with the cpu and thus overheating.

Contacting Dell support and sales was no help. It seems like I would have to buy a new mobo or heatsink through them to get this bracket replaced. Are there any third parties where I could buy a replacement bracket? Is this part standard? I do not know off hand what model the processor is and/or the form factor, but I could find this out.

Any help would be much appreciated... as these guys aren't very well off financially, in fact I'll probably just buy the part myself.

Thanks!
 
alc101ma said:
Hi Guys,

A family member was having problems with their Dell Dimension 2350. It was shutting off all the time. I checked the system out and one corner of the heatsink mounting bracket (that the Intel processors use) had broken off. Of course the heatsink wasn't making good contact with the cpu and thus overheating.

Contacting Dell support and sales was no help. It seems like I would have to buy a new mobo or heatsink through them to get this bracket replaced. Are there any third parties where I could buy a replacement bracket? Is this part standard? I do not know off hand what model the processor is and/or the form factor, but I could find this out.

Any help would be much appreciated... as these guys aren't very well off financially, in fact I'll probably just buy the part myself.

Thanks!
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Don't think that you could specifically buy just the mounting kits. Easier (and less time consuming) to spend some extra bucks and buy a heatsink for $30 (or however much dell charges for em)
 
So you think ordering the heatsink would include the bracket? I will have to contact Dell support again. It's so painful talking to these guys when you know way more than them... you know exactly what you want... but the guy has to follow this script by the letter.
 
Since it is dell and they do full systems, I'd think that they would include the bracket. I'd phone em up (sigh) to be sure though.
 
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