Worst heatsink design ever? You tell me!

[mechBgon]

The CPU: classic Pentium100

The heatsink: Uhhh... designed late on a Friday evening, perhaps? <--- disclaimer: I wasn't trying to imply that Intel designed this heatsink

You're not seeing things, this "heatsink" is designed with a 1mm air gap between its base and nearly all of the CPU core Thought you guys might like that little blast from the past.

 

[dqniel]

Looks fine to me . Air conducts heat just fine, I don't know why we use heatsinks at all!

 

[crypticlogin]

Is that a retail HSF for the P100?

 

[mindwreck]

strange, the heatsink i have in my p100 system does make direct contact with the cpu

 

[JBT]

pffft wtf was intel thinking? ha

 

[Budman]

Looks like a socket 370 heatsink to me,or maybe a AMD K6 heatsink,both of those cpus had raised cores so that sink would be good for them.

Are you sure that's the sink that came with the cpu?

 

[mechBgon]

No no no, it's not an Intel heatsink, it was in a piece-of-junk P100 system at the non-profit agency that I work for. It's not for a K6 either... note the plastic hold-down things at the corners? No metal clip whatsoever, it actually is built to cling to the edges of the CPU itself (not the socket).

 

[MichaelZ]

lol, lots of bent pins on there too! looks like a real collector's item for later

 

[mechBgon]

Hehe, and there's more where that one came from I should saw one in half to see what they look like inside...

 

[wicktron]

Thermaltake ORB-series?

 

[WobbleWobble]

I had an Intel Pentium 90 CPU who's HSF also latched onto the CPU itself. I don't remember if it made contact though.

 

[crypticlogin]

I also had (probably still do!) a P90 HSF that clipped onto the CPU. I remember the aluminum was flush against the chip. It was pretty cheap though and would've cost more to hew out an airgap so that's probably why they didn't!

 

[Bojangles139]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Hehe, and there's more where that one came from I should saw one in half to see what they look like inside...

And...?

also, you know your a geek when you know whats wrong with the second pic and start laughing.

brandon

 

[Mingon]

Worst ever was the thermaltake superorb, that could crush a amd core in a blink of an eye.

 

[MichaelZ]

got a pic of that superorb thing?

 

[Peter D]

Just slap on like two tubes of Arctic Silver, that'll fill the gap!

 

[aircooled]

That heatsink is designed for the original "mmx" pentiums which have an elevated core. Must have been placed on an older processor after the fact

 

[fireontheway]

Originally posted by: i82lazyboy
got a pic of that superorb thing?

link

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: fireontheway

Originally posted by: i82lazyboy
got a pic of that superorb thing?

link

It looks to perform quite well for it's time. Why is that a bad desing?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: McArra

Originally posted by: fireontheway

Originally posted by: i82lazyboy
got a pic of that superorb thing?

link

It looks to perform quite well for it's time. Why is that a bad desing?

I didn't have that one but the skt7 Golden Orb was a pain to mount. Forunately the K6-2 had the IHS so core crushing wasn't an issue.

 

[Mingon]

Originally posted by: McArra

Originally posted by: fireontheway

Originally posted by: i82lazyboy
got a pic of that superorb thing?

link

It looks to perform quite well for it's time. Why is that a bad desing?

Its all in the mount, one of the mounting retention points was fixed with no give, this meant when trying to install it you had no choice but to put it on at an angle. then when you had to push down the other retention clip it applied alot of force to the edge of the CPU (remember this was in the tbird day's). The net result was a chipped core, and as you couldnt use a shim due to a raised edge that the pics dont show basically it killed 2 x athlon's of mine. :|

 

[Jalapeno]

Originally posted by: Vegetto
Just slap on like two tubes of Arctic Silver, that'll fill the gap!

That's what I would have done as well. :evil:

 

[Zap]

I can remember, back in the day.... I was always seeing stickers on the TOP of the CPU, between it and the heatsink. I've seen that from 486 chips all the way through K6-2 chips. Those stickers were "warranty void if removed" from vendors, LOL. Cracks me up.

 

[Sahakiel]

Originally posted by: Zap
I can remember, back in the day.... I was always seeing stickers on the TOP of the CPU, between it and the heatsink. I've seen that from 486 chips all the way through K6-2 chips. Those stickers were "warranty void if removed" from vendors, LOL. Cracks me up.

Back in the day.. high end x86 processors dissipated 20W max. Some even ran fanless (oh, the horror).