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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
),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
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