swifteck 462 fan screw?

[gaius]

I won a swiftech 462 heatsink in a contest. Its an used one.

I am trying to figure out how to connect it to a 80x80 fan. Since it didn't came with any mounting or screw to connect it to the fan. This is the older swiftech 462, the one that doesnt have corner cut off.

I saw this fan bracket on swiftech's site, but it doesn't look like it would fit a 80x80 fan. The top screw has offset distance from the buttom screw. Looking at a 80x80 fan over my swiftech HS, the holes goes straight down with no offset distance between them.

What should i do? Are there screws i can buy? where?

 

[beatle]

Are you certain the screws drive straight down through all 4 holes on the fan? Take a look here. These are brackets for a 92mm fan. they also show the installation differences between the two kinds of brackets below.

 

[gaius]

Yes, the holes on HS lines up to the 80x80 fan's holes.

I either have to buy my own screws, or need to buy a 90x90 fan & buy that $5 mounting kit.

Anyone know if i can get long screws for this at Home Depot?

 

[beatle]

It's worth a shot. Take the heatsink and a fan with you. Ask for machine screws. I wonder if you have some kind of special revision of that heatsink. Even the 80mm fan brackets are offset just slightly in that picture.

EDIT: looking at the screws that fasten the brackets to the heatsink, you may be out of luck. they look a bit larger than those that would thread through the bottom hole of a fan. When mounting the fan to my 8045, I use very thin rounded head phillips screws with small washers that prevent the screw head from going through the hole. This combination just barely slides through the bottom hole at an angle. If the screw were much thicker or the head was much bigger it wouldn't fit.

 

[soja]

I'm not too clear about your situation but I had an original swifty (Pay not attention to the extra fan in my picture, just look at the bottom one) it came with extra long screws that mounted the 80mm into the 4 corner holes in the copper base of the heatsink. Here's another pic that's kind of small but gives you the idea.

 

[gaius]

I think i am pretty sure mine is a MC462, not MCX462.

So it doesnt use bracket, and use a long screw instead? The long screw is like 3 inches long? maybe i should bring the HS and fan to home depot and see if they have something for me. Is there a nut to lock up the screws?

 

[soja]

Originally posted by: gaius
I think i am pretty sure mine is a MC462, not MCX462.

So it doesnt use bracket, and use a long screw instead? The long screw is like 3 inches long? maybe i should bring the HS and fan to home depot and see if they have something for me. Is there a nut to lock up the screws?

Do the holes in your heatsink base have threads? I remember mine had threads so you could screw the long screws in. BTW the holes in the base (not the motherboard mounting holes) did not go all the way through. Check out this review, it has a lot of pics of the original swifty.

 

[gaius]

yes, the holes for fan screw does have threads.
Not sure what you meant by the holes in the base did not go all the way through though.

 

[soja]

I meant if the holes don't go all the way through then you wouldn't need a nut to lock up the screws.

 

[gaius]

oh i see. so if the screw doesnt go all the way through the hole, there is no place for the nut to hold the screw.