Using P4 cooler for Vid card

[Zacmaniac]

I am replacing my Pentium 4's(2.6C) cooler with a new heatsink, so I was wondering if I could use its stock heatsink to cool my video card, and if I could expect any lower temps with it. It would work, right?

 

[Zacmaniac]

bump

 

[nick1985]

your going to need a nice drill press with a very fine, small drill. also, thermal paste to reapply it. it will take 1 or 2 PCI slots and could damage the card by bending it too much. also, it will deffinately void your warranty. other than those hurdles, its a cool mod and ive seen it done before. if you end of doing it, show some pics.

 

[Zacmaniac]

Whats the drill for, to get the pins off the stock heatsink? Because I've heard there is just a second, small set of pins right inside the big pins that you ahve to pull out first on the hardocp boards. I do care about the warranty, though....I dunno. Overclocking you can just deny, but a whole new heatsink, I'm not so sure....Hmm. It would't void the warranty just to apply new thermal paste on the stock heatsink, would it?

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: Zacmaniac
Whats the drill for, to get the pins off the stock heatsink? Because I've heard there is just a second, small set of pins right inside the big pins that you ahve to pull out first on the hardocp boards. I do care about the warranty, though....I dunno. Overclocking you can just deny, but a whole new heatsink, I'm not so sure....Hmm. It would't void the warranty just to apply new thermal paste on the stock heatsink, would it?

the drill is for putting holes into the CPU heatsink. you cant just set it on there and do an indian dance to get it to stay.

 

[Zacmaniac]

Oh.

 

[azntiger0586]

Originally posted by: nick1985
the drill is for putting holes into the CPU heatsink. you cant just set it on there and do an indian dance to get it to stay.

LOL! :-D

 

[nick1985]

but anyway, its more work than you think it is. you cant just slap on a heatsink like on a CPU. but you would deffinately get some nice OC's out of it if you got it to work. its been done before, so im sure you can get it to work if your willing to sacrifice the warranty and give up a lot of time working on it.

 

[Camofrog]

hahahahahahaha I thought about doing that but i dont think i want to sacrifice my PCI slots and I just need a better card anyway ( saving for a 9800XT pro)

 

[Jeff7]

What videocard will this heatsink be going on?

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
What videocard will this heatsink be going on?

Probably a GeForce 4 MX440, like the Half Size MSI one or something

 

[Zacmaniac]

Originally posted by: DannyBoy

Originally posted by: Jeff7
What videocard will this heatsink be going on?

Probably a GeForce 4 MX440, like the Half Size MSI one or something

Nah, its a 9800 np.