heatsinks ans Fans..

Amoxicillin · Post by **Amoxicillin** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:08 pm

Do all the N64 portables have to have Heatsinks and Fans??

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:39 pm

If you don't want to melt it. Some people don't use fans though.

Post by **Triton** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:35 pm

heatsinks YES fans not nessisarily it would stay cooler with a fan tho

Amoxicillin · Post by **Amoxicillin** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:38 pm

Triton wrote:heatsinks YES fans not nessisarily it would stay cooler with a fan tho

Where could i get heat sinks though??

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:42 pm

Any old computer. Any pentium works great.

Amoxicillin · Post by **Amoxicillin** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:46 pm

nos_slived wrote:Any old computer. Any pentium works great.

Like in a laptop?

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:48 pm

If it is big enough for the chips, I guess it would work. Try these eBay listings.

Amoxicillin · Post by **Amoxicillin** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:52 pm

nos_slived wrote:If it is big enough for the chips, I guess it would work. Try these eBay listings.

if they were too large could i cut them? (i'm such a noob)

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:54 pm

Yea. Read this thread. We had a few posts on how to cut them.

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:11 pm

Is there an echo in here?

You could omit heat sinks if you want a convenient hot water bottle-thing.

What about using those... oh, what are they called? The things you put electricity into and one side gets cold and the other hot...

Anyways, for a chip near the surface of the case that would keep it plenty cool.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:45 am

Why couldn't you just keep the original heatsinks?

Alchemist · Post by **Alchemist** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:06 am

bicostp wrote:What about using those... oh, what are they called? The things you put electricity into and one side gets cold and the other hot...

Peltier element? I wouldn't advise it - if the cold side gets too cold it can easily go to sub-zero temperatures (means condensation will start forming and you don't want that with your electronics). Also needs a chunky heatsink on the hot side, and about 100w spare power

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:16 pm

Yep they're called peltier elements. Heres a neat project involving one: http://www.tripoint.org/kevtris/Project ... index.html
Kevin Horton is a god!

Post by **bicostp** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:54 pm

There was an article in Popular Science a while back that gave instructions to make a beer coolie into a beer cooler coolie with one of those and some tinfoil...

Yes, you can cut down heatsinks, they're usually aluminum, so they can't be too difficult.

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:37 pm

just wondering how do i stick heatsinks to the board i have silicon grease and glues but im not sure if that will work can someone please tell me