Have Old Step-Thermo cooler want to mod it for new cpu

[MarkB]

Right now i'm running a PII 333@515 with a Step-thermodynamics cooler on it. It's a peltier and bonded to the cpu with some "special" stuff... i forget what they called it. I want to put a 700e into my machine and do a gig and want to use this cooler since it'd be a waste just to toss it.
Has anyone out there successfully taken a step cooler off and reused it?
I was thinking if i could get the cooler off and cleaned up i could use some arctic silver adhesive to keep it on the new cpu.. would it be too much weight? The cooler is a slot one bad boy so it's pretty big. Would that be too much pressure on the top of the cpu... since the new one will probably be a s370 chip in a slocket since i have a Bx6 rev.2..

Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[Tweakmeister]

Step-Thermodynamics uses some kind of Titanium compound (or similar). It is really stuck onto the chip.
The only way I could see it working is to physically remove the P2 black aluminum plate and cut it down to size. Then, lap it and rig it onto the P3.

Good luck...please let me know if you do end up doing something, I am curious as well!

 

[Monolithic]

Well my tec cooler from step actually fell off and it only took a year and a half of carting it off to lan day every two weeks. Seems to me you should be able to pull it off by GENTLY prying it back and forth and to an fro and hither and yon.. oh I digress.. but if 39 100 mile trips in the back of a car can do so can you.

 

[MarkB]

Thanks for the feedback... i'll give it a go once i get a new cpu ready to take over. I'm looking more at the t-birds now since i can probably get a new mobo and a 1100 mhz k7 for about the same price as getting a 1 gig pIII to plop in the current mobo. Its a shame though. i actually thought for a bit that i could keep a motherboard through a cpu upgrade.