Extra Heat Sink

[club_med]

Hi, i just replaced the fan on my cpu, so now i have an extra heatsink, any ideas as to what i could do with it, anything useful ?.

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[nick t]

you could use it to blow air over your graphics card , if your overclocked or play a lot of games/use CAD.

[Szech]

I have a drawer of spare computer parts, and included in this drawer are a number of heatsinks. Here's a short list of things you can do with them:

1) Put them on your video card's processor, or cut one up with a hacksaw and put them on your video card's RAM.
2) Replace that puny greenie on your motherboard with it (the chipset gets pretty hot).
3) Make it into a water block. Some people have done this epoxying plastic panels to the sides and top, and they work really well.

Or put it on any other heatsource where it will fit.

[Richard_Cranium72]

After the unit's been running hard for an hour or so, feel around inside for hot areas.

If it's Hot, Cool it.
My theory anyway.

I put a large copper HS on my HP's chipset SIS5598 cause it got so very hot..

[club_med]

Great ideas, thanks people.

My comp has been running for two hours now, im going to check what parts are getting very hot.

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