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First post, by tabm0de

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Is it possible to change the heatsink on a old overdrive? or install a new one if heatsink is missing?

I saw somehere it is possible to use with "thermal adhesive"? its a type of glue? or am i talking like a crazy guy

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Reply 1 of 3, by Anonymous Coward

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The original overdrives had no VRMs mounted on top, so therefore what you want to do is quite possible.

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Reply 2 of 3, by tabm0de

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I was looking at http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-80486-overdrive … e0AAOSwx2dYJmgu

And what i know that model of dx2opd50 do have heatsink, and problebly would need one if bought.

Maybe http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?tpl=produc … odel=AK-TT12-80 would work?

naa, nothing yet...

Reply 3 of 3, by Tetrium

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tabm0de wrote:

Is it possible to change the heatsink on a old overdrive? or install a new one if heatsink is missing?

If your board has a ZIF socket with the protrusions for attaching something, you could mount a small s7 HSF. If your board has only 2 of those protrusions (most s7-like CPU sockets have at least 2 or 3 each side) you'll need one of those z-wire clamps.
Otherwise if your CPU (which has its heatsink removed) is flat, perhaps you could use one of those traditional clamp-on HSFs that attaches directly to the CPU (these are mostly 486, pentium ones I haven't seen a lot but do exist).

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