What do you do with your retail HSF?

[TheVrolok]

So I'm looking at my retail Q6600 HSF, and it's pretty. Nice cooper plating, cute cylindrical shape, etc.. but what should I do with it? Ebay? Put it in a box? Dance with it? I have no use for it with my AF7Pro.

 

[jonmcc33]

Toss it away?

 

[Quiksilver]

Mod it to be used to cool a video card?
Use it in a computer you found for free?
Keep it and re-mount it when you want to hand down the machine or sell it?

 

[BlueAcolyte]

use it as a spare? can it be used to cool a video card?

 

[Sheninat0r]

Yeah, you put some thermal paste on the core and some epoxy around it and slap on the heatsink, and BAM, you now have your very own C2D-cooled video card.

 

[cubeless]

make a nice mobile... intersperse the hsf's with old cpus...

 

[jonmcc33]

Originally posted by: Sheninat0r
Yeah, you put some thermal paste on the core and some epoxy around it and slap on the heatsink, and BAM, you now have your very own C2D-cooled video card.

LOL @ putting epoxy on an expensive video card.

 

[canuck88]

I always just keep mine for when I hand the PC down to a family member

 

[Borealis7]

if you got alot of them you could make the world first active cooling shirt!

in those hot august days you could be walking around and get cooled by the fans (hook them up with some batteries)

 

[Skott]

I just gave my last one to a buddy so he would have a spare.

 

[God Mode]

heatsink in a sock

 

[error8]

I just dance with it from time to time.

 

[trOver]

put it in a crucible and sell the aluminum blocks you make from it

 

[Ballatician]

decorative art piece

 

[VinDSL]

Humming bird feeder...

 

[Ika]

play baseball

 

[n7]

I don't touch them.

They sit unused in the retail box till i sell the CPU, & then the next owner gets to use it.

 

[lilbabimac]

Build a C2D cooled time machine, go to the future, and tell me what hardware prices are in 2008.

 

[Modelworks]

I got several in my closet

 

[SparkyJJO]

I use them for folding computers.

 

[jjmIII]

Ya, I keep it till I sell the CPU.

If you build an e2140/60/80.....get an OEM and use the copper plug HSF as an upgrade from the all alum cooler.

 

[TheVrolok]

Well this turned out to be a lot more entertaining than I had thought.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I used to put all of them up for grabs in the freebies thread, but I have need them again, so I keep them now.

 

[shikhae]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but doesn't Intel require the complete package- heatsink et al. when you RMA. At least this was the case when I got my e6420 replaced.

So wouldn't the most logical thing be to store it somewhere safe? Or has eveyone here already voided the warrenty on the processors by lapping it?

 

[RallyMaster]

I gave mine to a friend.