02-24-2020, 01:23 PM
(02-24-2020, 08:54 AM)chrestomanci Wrote: Thanks, though that was not what I had in mind. I would rather not use glue if possible. I was hoping to find something with screws or pushpins that would fit on the existing mounting holes.
I have used the mechanical drawings on the Wiki, and found that the two mounting holes are 55.5 mm apart so a heatsink that is 40mm square would fit. It looks like that was a common size for Northbridge heatsinks back in the day, so I will look through my collection of old PC parts, to see if there is a motherboard I could cannibalize.
Yup, a Northbridge hs fits fine - that is what I have.
As long as you have a standard kernel/release (Ayufan, MrFixIT ...) it is no problem to boot without a heatsink as they include thermal throttling. Idle temps with ondemand (or similar) governor are pretty modest as well (browsing, email etc).
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