Expansion pack heatsink?

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Thegamer3000
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Expansion pack heatsink?

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Has anyone opened the expansion pack? When I opened mine there was a little flat piece of metal for a heatsink. Since my portable is tight on space I was wondering is that little piece of metal enough? I need to use something flat like that.
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Re: Expansion pack heatsink?

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Thegamer3000 wrote:Has anyone opened the expansion pack? When I opened mine there was a little flat piece of metal for a heatsink. Since my portable is tight on space I was wondering is that little piece of metal enough? I need to use something flat like that.
it was enclosed inside the console itself without any venting really...

if you are really concerned you can get a small heat sink and slap that on.
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I think that would probably be RF shielding and if it is flat enough just use it as long as your portable is well cooled. You might want to place it near a fan though.
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I just took a Heat disc off a busted n64 mobo, and Stuck it on the RAM chip, which is aimed through the Vent at the Major mobo Heatsink. and run just runs warm instead of the usually hot to where you can barely touch it and usually crashes if is a 3rd party Expansion and in some cases melts and ruins the N64, almost no difference from the Jumper pak with creates no heat at all.
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