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It needs the spring tension to make an effective thermal junction. You'll kill the CPU. I wouldn't run it that way for more than a few seconds.
Bargain socket A heatsinks can be had for $dirt. Look around for a discard from someone who's gone to another socket. Talk to techs at local computer repair shops. Really, without a working heatsink you're going backwards.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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