You can try frozencpu.com they have heat sinks and fan combos for socket 754 and a few of them list your cpu as compatible

Or try the old trick of bending the metal retaining clips so they clamp down tighter

Maybe try putting a copper shim in between the CPU die and the heatsink.

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

Maybe try putting a copper shim in between the CPU die and the heatsink.

Nah a shim is a bad idea an extra layer is never good, though you gave me a great idea on this one, instead of a shim under the heatsink, add a rubber pad under the clip, a thick one, it will give you some wiggle room so it doesn't crush the die but will add enough highest to the retaining clip it should fit, unless the base of the heatsink mount is higher, in which case you should be able to shave that down

Yes, rubber or silicone pads would work nicely.

chrismeyer6: thank you, I'll take a look.
candle_86 and gdjacobs: I'm afradid I don't understand where exactly you want me to put that rubber pad. Could you clear that up for me please?
mr_bigmouth_502: thanks, not a bad idea, I think...

Why not use the copper shim? What would be the difference between this and proper IHS on a standard grey goo as they do nowadays.

gdjacobs: Thank you. Either I'm completely dumb (may not be far out) or we have a different style of cooler in mind. What I have is a black plastic frame kind of bracket on the board and the cooler itself is just a block of aluminum with a metal stripe through and 90° eye on each end of that stripe. I see no place where I can put the rubber to make the heatsink get closer to the cpu.

Yeah, I didn't show it but the idea is that the clip is flanked on either side by Al or Cu fins. The clip sits in a channel cut into the heatsink fins and presses onto the base. It's essentially the same mechanism going all the way back to Socket 5, but they've improved it with a better bracket and a lever on the retention clip so you don't have to screw around with a flat head.

You're going to want to use something with a copper base. The idea is to use something squishy that puts pressure (but not too much) onto the CPU core as the clip wasn't designed for the lower height that the heatsink has to sit at. Hopefully the bracket allows the heatsink to sit lower as well.

Thanks, I think I now understand what you mean. It may be a lot safer from what i did, but I stumbled upon a cheap solution. I read another article, where someone removed an Athlon IHS and placed it on top of the Turion. Just like the shim idea. Well - I had a broken Sempron 3000+ (pins gone) and I used that for the IHS. Temps are around 35°C and the AMD box cooler gives enough pressure to hold it in place without it wiggling around.

All in all... big thanks for all the good ideas.

That sounds like a great solution. This is also a case where a more durable solution for thermal compound like Ceramique or even thermal epoxy is likely appropriate.