Question Heat Sinks

[Kledgie]

Bought a 9 dollar motherboard. No heat sinks? Never happened to me before. So I buy heat sinks. How do I attach them? Thx guys! lol!

 

[RLGL]

What did you expect for $9.00? the CPU too?

 

[UsandThem]

What did you expect for $9.00? the CPU too?

I disagree.

I can accept no heatsinks on a $6.15 motherboard, but a fancy $9 motherboard better have dang heatsinks on everything!

 

[bigboxes]

Bought a 9 dollar motherboard. No heat sinks? Never happened to me before. So I buy heat sinks. How do I attach them? Thx guys! lol!

Installing a chipset cooler

 

[Kledgie]

What did you expect for $9.00? the CPU too?

Actually, yes. It was in the picture. The heat sinks too. Laugh it up losers! Muahahahaha. Thx box!

 

[JWade]

um, from the picture, the socket pins look pretty damaged

 

[PhlashFoto]

Ironic to be concerned about a missing heatsink, yet miss out in bent pins and missing CMOS battery. I can only assume this was a DOA/for parts board that was stripped.

 

[Furious_Styles]

Yeah you can easily boot without the heatsinks on the NB/SB but the bent pins have to be straightened first.

 

[Kledgie]

You guys are exactly right, pins were super bent. Turns out the guy who sold it to me thought the gold colored asus heat sinks were actual... gold.. and ripped them off before shipping to me. I wish I were making it up.

 

[Furious_Styles]

You guys are exactly right, pins were super bent. Turns out the guy who sold it to me thought the gold colored asus heat sinks were actual... gold.. and ripped them off before shipping to me. I wish I were making it up.

lol. Gotta love idiots.

 

[bigboxes]

Revisit this thread if you are ever able to get that board to post.

 

[mindless1]

What do you mean by how do you attach them? It has the (for the era) standard sized heatsink outline silkscreened onto the board with holes on two corners for the typical spring loaded push pins.

That will be (arguably) necessary on the northbridge since it is a small open die, but on the southbridge, being embedded in resin it could have a heatsink thermal-expoxied on instead if you wanted to, but to epoxy one on you must be sure to get rid of every last trace of the heatsink compound, and to be sure I would use a sanding block to lap it because it is often very difficult to get it all off.

Obviously this all depends on getting the socket pins straightened out, but there are other options too, for example taking a larger heatsink, hacksawing it to size, including clearing adjacent objects like the battery holder for NB or clearance to manipulate the locking lever on the PCIe slot, then cut or bend off pin/fin where you drill a hole for either a push pin or just standard nut/bolt/lockwasher, making sure to use a fiber washer if there are any traces that the metal is being tightened down against.

An oversized, cut down 'sink is helpful for overclocking if you don't want to pay a premium for something aftermarket to do this, and happen to have a box full of old heatsinks lying around as some of us do.

I'd try contacting the seller and demanding the heatsinks... his/her screwup, so should be his/her dime to pay shipping and send them.

Missing CMOS battery wouldn't bother me at all, if it's been sitting unused for a while it was probably near drained anyway. I just buy those in bulk on ebay as I have various things that use the CR2032 besides mobos too, mostly remote controls, tire inflation gauge, digital calipers, and I forget what else.

 

[Kledgie]

What do you mean by how do you attach them? It has the (for the era) standard sized heatsink outline silkscreened onto the board with holes on two corners for the typical spring loaded push pins.

That will be (arguably) necessary on the northbridge since it is a small open die, but on the southbridge, being embedded in resin it could have a heatsink thermal-expoxied on instead if you wanted to, but to epoxy one on you must be sure to get rid of every last trace of the heatsink compound, and to be sure I would use a sanding block to lap it because it is often very difficult to get it all off.

Obviously this all depends on getting the socket pins straightened out, but there are other options too, for example taking a larger heatsink, hacksawing it to size, including clearing adjacent objects like the battery holder for NB or clearance to manipulate the locking lever on the PCIe slot, then cut or bend off pin/fin where you drill a hole for either a push pin or just standard nut/bolt/lockwasher, making sure to use a fiber washer if there are any traces that the metal is being tightened down against.

An oversized, cut down 'sink is helpful for overclocking if you don't want to pay a premium for something aftermarket to do this, and happen to have a box full of old heatsinks lying around as some of us do.

I'd try contacting the seller and demanding the heatsinks... his/her screwup, so should be his/her dime to pay shipping and send them.

Missing CMOS battery wouldn't bother me at all, if it's been sitting unused for a while it was probably near drained anyway. I just buy those in bulk on ebay as I have various things that use the CR2032 besides mobos too, mostly remote controls, tire inflation gauge, digital calipers, and I forget what else.

Right. I'm in the habit of always sticking a new CMOS battery in a used mobo I've purchased. I ended up getting a refund. Too bad. I usually have good luck on Mercari.

 

[bigboxes]

Right. I'm in the habit of always sticking a new CMOS battery in a used mobo I've purchased. I ended up getting a refund. Too bad. I usually have good luck on Mercari.

Yeah. A couple months ago I purchased a used printer off of Amazon. The seller ships it in a box with no packing material. Printer came with broken output tray, broken feeder, broken lid/document feeder. I got a refund as well. Just threw it away. All because someone couldn't pack properly for shipping.

 

[mindless1]

^ THREW IT AWAY?!!

I would've glued it back together, with model cement or PVC cement, or superglue if it was a very hard plastic that neither of the prior two will effectively join. If that didn't work, I'd be out only a little glue and time, would have still requested a refund either way.

 

[Kledgie]

^ THREW IT AWAY?!!

I would've glued it back together, with model cement or PVC cement, or superglue if it was a very hard plastic that neither of the prior two will effectively join. If that didn't work, I'd be out only a little glue and time, would have still requested a refund either way.

Yes.. but you, sir, are a legend.

 

[Kledgie]

Yeah. A couple months ago I purchased a used printer off of Amazon. The seller ships it in a box with no packing material. Printer came with broken output tray, broken feeder, broken lid/document feeder. I got a refund as well. Just threw it away. All because someone couldn't pack properly for shipping.

Unreal haha. Oh yeah, this guy shipped the mobo in a cereal box too. Raw, no bubble wrap or anything O_O

 

[aigomorla]

um, from the picture, the socket pins look pretty damaged

LOL... im glad im no the only one that noticed it....



This should of been a VERY big RED flag... even more redder then china's flag.