Acer R710 - Additional CPU heatsink heat sink compound

R710 - Additional CPU Heatsink Excessive heat, if unchecked, can cause all sorts of damage. Moderate overheating of the CPU can cause hidden damage and shorten its working life, while excessive overheating can actually cause the CPU to melt and destroy itself. With today's CPU's, this could all happen within a few seconds without some method of extracting the excess heat from the CPU core.

Because the core of our CPU is quite small, we need to spread the heat over a much larger surface area of heatsink to help get rid of it effectively.