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Moding the stock heat sink:
This is our arctic cooling heat sink. We will be disassembling this for our project. It’s important to be careful with these types of heat sinks. The aluminum fins can easily be mashed and this will in turn hurt the performance of the heat sink.
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Step one is to remove the fan bracket. There are 2 simple clips that will remove the unit from the heat sink. |
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The fan is held in place with a rather simple but very innovative rubber spacers that more or less let the fan float so it doesn’t contribute too much noise. Just apply a little force (say one finger) and the fan will pop out. |
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The hole for the fan matches our cooler exactly. To mount it all we did was to insert our cooler module and apply 4 small beads of hot glue. After it cools simple snap it back onto the heat sink. This technique can be used for several other active and passive heat sinks on the market. This type of cooler is best matched with an all copper passive heat sink in my opinion. But as you will see on the next page it can even work to mod a stock Intel heat sink. |
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