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  • PIII-450 Surgery performed.... It's alive!!!

    Well (Deep Subject I Know ),

    Thought I'd make my 2nd fan on the PIII-450 a little more permanent, so I did a little surgery.

    I pulled the CPU out of the socket and pulled out my dremel (actually it's a Ryobi, but who would know for certain what I was talking about if I'd said Ryobi instead of dremel) moto-tool, attached a soft/hard pvc bit and proceeded to notch out a segment at the bottom of the C-channel that wraps around the heat-sink in my OEM (with Intel fan) PIII-450. I then inserted a fan off of a dead PII-266 (AAVID 3-wire) into this notch. I then did a little plastic welding to merge the 2 forms of PVC together to make a solid coupling. I then re-inserted the modified cartridge back into the slot, hooked up both sets of fans to different 3-wire connectors on the mobo, and voila - 2-channel cooling of my processor. dropped at least 1 degree (with the G400Max my CPU has been hovering around the 42C mark, now it's down around 40/41)...

    Nice, neat, and no glue fumes... Note: PVC does stink when melted - use a ventilated area to work in.....

    Guyv
    Gaming Rig.

    - Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro
    - AMD Athlon 3200+ XP
    - 1.5GB Dual Channel DDR 433Mhz SDRAM
    - 6.1 Digital Audio
    - Gigabit Lan (Linksys 1032)
    - 4 x 120GB SATA Drives, RAID 0+1 (Striped/Mirrored)
    - Sony DRU-500A DVD/+/-/R/RW
    - Creative 8x DVD-ROM
    - LS120 IDE Floppy
    - Zip 100 IDE
    - PNY Ultra 5900 (256MB)
    - NEC FE950
    - DTT2500 Cambridge Soundworks

  • #2
    Very impressive, but next time use PVC epoxy. Available at plumbing/pool supply stores. Melted plastic isn't the best for your system.
    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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    • #3
      Hmmm... Next time I'll try and make sure I have the stuff. This just happened to occur to me around 10PM or so, so the stores weren't open...

      Thanks,

      Guyv
      Gaming Rig.

      - Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro
      - AMD Athlon 3200+ XP
      - 1.5GB Dual Channel DDR 433Mhz SDRAM
      - 6.1 Digital Audio
      - Gigabit Lan (Linksys 1032)
      - 4 x 120GB SATA Drives, RAID 0+1 (Striped/Mirrored)
      - Sony DRU-500A DVD/+/-/R/RW
      - Creative 8x DVD-ROM
      - LS120 IDE Floppy
      - Zip 100 IDE
      - PNY Ultra 5900 (256MB)
      - NEC FE950
      - DTT2500 Cambridge Soundworks

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      • #4
        Guess you didn't do a photo-shoot of the whole adventure, huh?? Would've been more help to see what you did

        Jorden.
        Jordâ„¢

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        • #5
          I'll work on it....
          Maybe I can get some pictures taken, or draw something up...

          Guyv
          Gaming Rig.

          - Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro
          - AMD Athlon 3200+ XP
          - 1.5GB Dual Channel DDR 433Mhz SDRAM
          - 6.1 Digital Audio
          - Gigabit Lan (Linksys 1032)
          - 4 x 120GB SATA Drives, RAID 0+1 (Striped/Mirrored)
          - Sony DRU-500A DVD/+/-/R/RW
          - Creative 8x DVD-ROM
          - LS120 IDE Floppy
          - Zip 100 IDE
          - PNY Ultra 5900 (256MB)
          - NEC FE950
          - DTT2500 Cambridge Soundworks

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