Modware Heat Guzzler Socket A Heatpipe HSF $4.99 + S&H

[Salvador]

Originally posted by: unclebabar
Oh yes it is a fubar to get onto a ECS k7s5a mb. I will try again with arctic silver but I'm a little gun shy because on the first go it wouldn't post, plus I need to find a hard drive to use.

Please explain. I was going to buy this for a ECS K7S5A/1.4 Tbird system.

 

[unclebabar]

I think I just didn't reseat the cpu properly in its socket (as to why it didn't post). It works fine now.

As far as getting it on, it was kind of hard getting the clip lined up with the tabs on the socket, because it looks like the fan is going to hit the row of three capacitors when you tilt it, but after doing it a couple of times, it's okay.

 

[Salvador]

Originally posted by: unclebabar
I think I just didn't reseat the cpu properly in its socket (as to why it didn't post). It works fine now.

As far as getting it on, it was kind of hard getting the clip lined up with the tabs on the socket, because it looks like the fan is going to hit the row of three capacitors when you tilt it, but after doing it a couple of times, it's okay.

Does it clamp too hard though? I'm worried about breaking the chip. You didn't need to use a shim or anything, did you?

 

[MacMcMacmac]

I found the clip on my Silentboost stiffer. You can take a bit of the tension out of it by pulling both ends down tightly before mounting it, to take a bit of the kink out of it.

 

[unclebabar]

> Does it clamp too hard though? I'm worried about breaking the chip. You didn't need to use a shim or anything, did you?

I don't think it clamped any harder than the other HSFs I've used. I did not use a shim. I think the little pads on cpu are enough.

 

[MacMcMacmac]

These are noisy buggers though. Performance seems to be getting worse. I'm highly skeptical my temp diode is reliable. Might just bodge together an SMBus diode reader to take the guesswork out.

 

[MacMcMacmac]

Ok, out it comes. No better than the Silentboost, and a lot louder (tried passive, the board shut itself off @ 58c and climbing). I suspect my early temps were the result of fresh thermal paste application, and a room temperature heatsink.

I think I'm gonna lop the ends off the heatpipes and hook them up in series for a radiator for a watercooling setup. Running off of 5 volts, they should be quiet and cool well. It was an interesting experiment in cheapskatery nontheless.

Looking closely at the cpu footprint in the thermal paste show that one of the heatpipes is nowhere near the processor, one is directly over it, and the middle one is about 40% over it. Not the best design. Best of luck to those having a different outcome. I don't doubt your experience, although I think the K7S5A monitor is reading something other than the cpu at 19C.