When you have to fix something yourself...

[AceGoober]

Ghetto it! :laugh:

 

Hmm...two ordinary large paper clips. I wonder why they are on the desk?

 

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Run! They are shape-shifters!!! :ohmy:

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Oh, wait a minute....looks like the paper clips have a purpose...

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Tetris for a heatsink. :laugh:

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Square hole meet square heatsink. Paperclips slip under edge of shroud which in turn holds heatsink firmly to naughty overheating I/C. Applied a very thin layer of thermal compound to keep the hot head I/C from, well, overheating. :geek:

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Never knew I'd own a 30" LCD that was a blow-hard. :tongue:

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Works! No more overheating of I/C! :D

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And, to finish it off....gotta have the aluminum foil cowling secured by electrical tape! :pirate:

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[greaper1666]

that looks epic, i wonder could heatsinks be fitted to the back of a xbox 360 since there are already fans there?

[Werne]

@greaper You can fit a heatsink anywhere, as long as the surface it's attached to is flat (and has thermal compound on it) and the heatsink applies pressure to the desired surface you want to cool.

 

And the way this looks reminds me of some of my own "PC DIY" stuff. Back when my graphics card died, I had no spare one and no integrated graphics, so I had to improvise. And the result was the following...

The board in the pic is an ASUS P5KPL-AM with Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 and 2GB DDR2-800 RAM, the components in the case below it are the same components I have in my sig, minus the graphics card (which was to be replaced). I set up the old Intel board with Debian 7 LXDE (so that it uses as little RAM/CPU as possible) installed onto a flash drive, while the below board was running the OS in the sig from it's HDD.

 

What I did is a bit complicated, so to put it simply - I remotely controlled my new PC while displaying it's desktop through the old mobo's on-board G31/33 chipset. That way I had graphical output from my new PC, but with a messy bunch of cabling, two mobos, two PSUs, and two PCs running at the same time, just so I can use the one I wanted. Should've seen the power-on procedure on those, it was as complicated as a nuclear missile launch sequence. :laugh: