Cellery p4 swap with a mobile p4

[APE992]

I've got an old 1.8ghz desktop with a Celeron in it with a heat spreader onboard. I want to swap it with a 1.6ghz p4 pulled from a laptop that is far superior to the former. Yes they both are terrible but I'd like to use it for a low power file server.

The mobile works fine in the new mobo, problem is the system was designed for use with a heatspreader and the mobile chip just has an exposed core. Is there any easy solution for this or should I give up before I kill something?

 

[Spikesoldier]

get a heatsink that doesnt use the bracket, and uses the 4 holes surrounding the processor instead.

make sure your board has enough room for the caps after heatsink installation, and then search for a heatsink.

when i ran an ultra small pc with a northwood in it, I used a 1u copper heatsink that used the holes.