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Replacing Stock Heat Sink With New
Having reformatted my hard-drive in an attempt to repair a suspected memory leak I have now re-installed all of my software. At the time I understood/envisaged Dell Datasafe Restore would ensure all my data and programs would remain in place, why I will never know?! Anyway, I now lament not having taken the opportunity presented to install an Artic Freezer 7 Pro. My simple question is if I replace the Dell stock heat sink with the Freezer 7 Pro, cleaning the upper surface of the processor chip without removing it from its housing, will the OS and all installed programs remain intact?
I appreciate in advance all assistance given.
Many thanks.