Recent content by jlam55555

Actually, by searching around some more I found this cheaper (but smaller) CPU heat sink + fan ($10.96) with this lovely visual: Thanks again to y'all for responding so quickly.

@rgd1101 and @tennis2 gotcha. Looking at the mounting brackets, the screw holes are extended.

Hi, computer noob here looking to make a first PC on a budget. I have a CPU (Xeon X5570) that uses the LGA 1366 socket. I'm looking for a CPU fan. There are some fans that say they support both LGA 1366 and 1151, but I thought that they were different sizes. Examples: Quiet CPU Dual Looped...

By "locked," do you mean similar to overclocking locking? I didn't know that unlocking a CPU had anything to do with RAM speed. Is the motherboard RAM-overclocking a common thing? Is it likely that this laptop would use it? Do you have a source for this? And about bridging, this was something...

I know variants of this question have been asked before but I to clarify a detail I saw in another post. I'm looking at some laptops like this Dell Inspiron, which uses a single-channel 8Gb DDR4 2666MHz RAM. The manual states that all configurations supported are 2400MHz, single- or...