Ok, I was going to mount my heatsinks and then i hit a snag (i think...)
I bought Artic Silver 5 Thermal Compound. You can see the company product page here. I went on to look at the instructions since a lot of you portablizers here use compound. Then, upon reading the fine print, i read that it is not an adhesive! If i am playing a game with the unit tilted (thereby tilting the chips the sinks rest on), i suspect that my heatsinks would just simply fall off after a while.
That's not good.
So, what can i do to rectify this? I heard something about superglue mixed with the compound, but i don't know if that's valid or not. Thanks to those who can help.
Kurt_ wrote:Why not try this:
1) Slap your friend across the face for buying an ipod. They're made to fail after a year or two, regardless of how well you care for them.
2) Slap him again.
3) Go buy him a Creative Zen or something.
Yeah thermal compound doesn't stick the heatsink to the chip: Just hotglue each corner and it'll work nicely. I think there's also a recipe for thermal epoxy somewhere, you just mix epoxy and thermal compound in the right proportions.
I'll just be a gangsta and use the ghetto hot glue method. Thanks.
Kurt_ wrote:Why not try this:
1) Slap your friend across the face for buying an ipod. They're made to fail after a year or two, regardless of how well you care for them.
2) Slap him again.
3) Go buy him a Creative Zen or something.
if ya wanna be real professional like...just drill small holes and use the factory screws... removable and not quite as messy as hot glue (also hot glue would melt if the 64 is overclocked, doubt it with a portable but just and idea)
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the problem with that is that drilling holes near the 3-4 most important chips could easily fry the N64. and hot glue doesn't melt at N64 tempuratures.
no just mark where the holes are on the heatsinks and drill the holes there (away from the n64 mobo) cover the threads of the n64 with a graphite antiseige themocompound and screw them in, gently no messing with the n64 at all (just use the factory screwholes)
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If you're talking about those metal heat-transfer pieces, then you're right. But the thermal tape adhesing them to the chip is very weak, and wouldn't stay on its own. They're actually clamped inside a bigger heatsink that's screwed into the main board.
Trust me I've opened many N64's. This is not a good thing.
Yep, joevennix is right. Those things pop right off; Im actually going to try to find a fan for my portable. My buddy is gonna see if hes got any heatsinks, but Ima look for a fan or two if I can.
