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A lot of great computer kludges lately. People must have gotten bored installing bathroom fixtures.
Wait until 2010 (aka The Future) when we will have computerized bathrooms.
OK, so now it’s 2010. Where’s my computerised bathroom? Well?
I took me a while to see what was the so called mistake in this kludge!
Screws aren’t alike…
well now we get to see the inside of that fan computer…
I don’t think so. This one lacks duct tape
or is it just out of view???…
Screw the original CPU cooling fan!
Zip ties dammit, zip ties!
Fixing a computer with WOOD screws …. that’s what you do when you neither have the original screws nor even a super-glue tube.
Please Mr. MacGyver… teach him the 20 most important facts about DIY!!!
…which are…?
If you think that’s impressive, you should see their deck…it’s held down with #6-32 pan-head machine screws!
The only thing you can screw with #6-32 pan-head machine screws are popsicle sticks! Funny!
and cpu fans…..
Stop being so down on wood screws in DIY work. They work great when you’re out of nails, fuses or hinge pins.
LoL! Like, literally.
Real DIYers never run out of such things.
While that looks pretty stupid, it would probably work just fine.
uh-oh, i did this in my computer too
used wood screw to attach a thicker fan on northbridge heatsink :/
Oh c’mon, that’s like business as usual in my computers. Well, it used to be, before I started buying new parts. In fact, I think I have a picture of a cooling solution that makes this one look like something that should be on display at an Apple Store. *submits*
on the right side of the CPU socket, it looks like the lever used to secure the processor is in the raised, or released position. if so, this kludge really is screwed.
No, the lever is in the front, and it’s in the lowered position.
The lever is on the front, and in the down position. You can see the hump in the socket (and the corresponding step in the underside of the heatsink) which is where the socket mechanism is. The lever is attached to a Doodad[tm] which is the core of the socket mechanism, so you’ll always see the lever on a side of the socket adjacent to the hump.
i guess we can agree to disagree.
@husabob: yup, you’re free to be wrong.
I have to agree with Stoneshop here, the CPU locking lever is in the front. The heatsink attaching/locking thingy is on the right side. Which is a sensible place to put it, because the spring on those things can be freaking strong, so you need a screwdriver to push them down enough to be able to hook it to the socket. And of course you never manage to nail it on the first try, and sooner or later the screwdriver slips… and that could do serious damage to the board. So it’s best to happen at the edge of the motherboard.
Very productive, there is not soft or hard thing that keeps you from downloading those pictures.
Well some CPU sockets have really bizarre proprietary mounting devices, some of which are obscure and require some kludgerey for repairs. Also I don’t see any reason why this wouldn’t work, provided the case is large enough.
This looks like the main CPU heatsink and not the northbridge (as some in the comments have suggested). possibly an old Pentium 3? Also the heatsink was obviously made to a be passive and wasn’t intended for a fan in the first place.
See those hooks on the outer fins, pointing inwards? They are meant to grab a plastic shroud that the original fan fastened onto (screws, or those split pins that expand when you push down another, smaller pin). The original fan croaked, the replacement doesn’t match the fastener spacing on the shroud, so out it goes making way for this kludge.
C’mon, those aren’t just screws – they’re high performance heat pipes!
See what you get when you use an ECS board? Cheapskate…
That heat sink was in so much heat, it got screwed.
@husabob: The lever to secure the processor is in the front. And normally the lever is beneath the cooler, so that you can’t attach the cooler, when the lever isn’t in the right position. And that is also the case here.
Is it Windows 7 compatible, or it will need new (screw)drivers?
As a professional computer repair technician, all I can say is: Do not let whoever did this near the inside of your computer. Ever. That’s just wrong.
For one thing, that heat sink isn’t even designed to accept a fan… not an industry-standard type of fan, anyways. I suppose that’s why someone decided it needed to be kludged to death, but that still doesn’t make it right! What he really should have done is go spend a few bucks and get a thrid-party replacement Heat Sink that comes with a fan.
For another thing… the screws. Those are huge wood screws. The jheat sink is not made of wood. Nor is the fan. And they’re way too long. Not to mention too wide. Oh, and have I mentioned that this heat sink isn’t supposed to have screws screwed into it?
But, you know, IF (and it’s a big if), and I say again [u]IF[/u] you’re gonna kludge the hekll out of your heat sink and screw a fan onto it, please use four screws. The fan has four screw holes on it FOR A REASON! (Just so we’re clear: The other two holes are not there for decoration.)
Good day, and good kludging.
I don’t think I have much trust in your computer repairing capacity either. That heatsink can accept a fan just fine, using a plastic shroud held by the hooks on the outer fins. The fan (industry-standard, because with a gajillion Chinese shops cranking out HSF units like these, you can’t afford to use a custom fan if you still want to be competitive) mounts against the shroud.
Err, what you’re saying, basically, is that people should properly perform their kludges? Sorry, this isn’t overclockingfordummies.com; that’s three sites over to the left.
Hey, I did wish you all good kludging! Why the negative vibes?
Well, first of all, a heatsink is a heatsink. It dissipates heat. If you generate airflow to it, it dissipates heat faster. That’s about it. You can design it to accept or not accept a fan all you want, it will still work that way.
Second, wood screws are called wood screws because they are *best* used with wood. They won’t shrivel and die just because you use them with something other than wood.
Third, are they too long? Really? I bet there are a lot of things in a computer case that go *right* above the CPU so two pieces of metal sticking out is gonna be a *huge* problem, apparently. And as for the screws being too wide, they went in, did they not? Those bent fins will inhibit about 0.2% of the sink’s heat dissipating capacity – the extra air flow will increase it by about 200%, so it’s still a huge net gain.
As for the four screws thing – srsly, what would four screws do here that two wouldn’t?
I know that you’re paid to do what’s “supposed” to be done, but if I always did what I was “supposed” to do with my computers, I’d be out a gazillion bucks by now. First rule of home repairs is: forget what’s “supposed” to be done, and go with what works.
I need to dig up this one of mine where we zip-tied the heatsink down because one of the socket clips broke.
Zip tie is for sissies. I hooked one of those up (it was a Pentium 3) with an iron wire stuck under the socket. Yeah, I stuck a piece of metal into a forest of CPU socket pins. To this day I have no idea how the hell did it not short out.
Now see, this is why you should always save those extra bamboo chopstick sets and keep them in your road bag. Why risk a short, I always say.
When all else fails Wood screws ALWAYS work
heatsink extensions ?
Oh seriously. Who HASN’T done this?
been there…. done that.
This is hilarious, one of the guys said Real DIYers never run out of such things. I find it interesting
Reminds me of the time I zip-tied a heat sink to a CPU when the bracket was either missing or broken… I ought to find which computer that was and take a picture of it, for the enlightenment of all! It was beautiful.