What to do with 200+ intel stock coolers?

[Mads321]

EDIT: Pic's added on page 2

Hi.

Some time ago, i bought 200+ intel stock coolers for approx. the price of a case of beer @ any country in the world (except maybe sweden and iceland).

So, they have been sitting in my basement all this time. Now and then, i have been thinking about what i should do with them.

As time went by, i realized, that maybe i should have kept the money, and bought myself a case of beer instead.


Now here i am, asking all of you splendid modders out there:

"What in the name of a holy cows a**hole am i gonna do with 200+ intel stock coolers"???

ANY ideas are welcome, lame as can be

Cheers, Mads321

[STEvil]

Chop them up for mosfet/driver ic/ram sinks... etc.

[4Qman]

send me 10 :D

[AliG]

one question. Why the hell did you buy 200 stock intel coolers:rofl: :ROTF: :ROTF: :ROTF: :ROTF:

I dunno, sell them on ebay for like $3 plus shipping a piece? There's always going to be someone that broke their mounting mechanism or something of the sort that won't want to pay a lot of money for a new hsf


Trade it them in bundles of 10 to other geeks for amd heatpipe coolers? Those are actually pretty decent at cooling, then you could mount them on say a nb or gfx card, its been done plenty of times

Make them into sex toys?:shocked:

Throw them at your wife/gf whenever you get mad at her (probably a bad idea though)?

Build a case out of them like thermalright's heatpipe case?

Throw them at a local beer shop's manager until they give you 2 cases of beer?

Hit yourself in the head with them until you realize why you bought 200 crappy coolers?

sell them to buy "goods" off the random gay hobo on a shady corner whose prices are

$1 to look at it
$2 to touch it
$3 to watch me touch it
$5 to touch it while I touch my toes
$6 to touch it while I touch your toes
$10 for a bj
$12 for an hj
$15 for a zj


I recommend the zj:ROTF:

[zanzabar]

what if u sold them to a metal reclamation they have to add up with a few hundred

[[XC] Lead Head]

Grind them down into alu dust, find some powderd rust, and make a :banana::banana::banana::banana: load of thermite.

[alexio]

Copper core ones, for C2D etc? I could use a few.....

PM me ;)

[MuffinFlavored]

They cost a case of beer.
Did you drink a case of beer before you ordered?

[[XC] gomeler]

If they are Core 2 heatsinks with the copper core then knock out the copper core and try to sell the copper and aluminum for scrap. I imagine you've got a couple dozen pounds of copper and aluminum, worth something.

[Mads321]

Well i must say.... Some pretty far out ideas so far. Might acually end up doing one of thoose things :eek:

I'd say somewhere between 5-10% of them are copper-core. Rest is pure aluminium.

I'd love to ship some of em to peeps, but i really don't think it would be worth the cost for any part.

The best idea i had myself, was to drill out the cores on a bunch of em, and then maybe superglue them together or something. Would make a pretty unique resevoir/watercooling tank.
That idea (along with basicly all other ideas i've had about them), would include me going out buying a :banana::banana::banana::banana:load of hardware (ie. drills, weldingdevices etc.).

Should any danish people with access to a machineshop or something stuble upon this tread, well you should PM me, if you would have any interest in making something with the coolers.

btw, i bought the coolers 2+ years ago, when they actually had some value :D

[systemviper]

post a picture of the load

[Yukon Trooper]

Sell em' on eBay.

[Ugly n Grey]

I think you should post a thread in alt.personals offering the items as dowry for a new bride and see if you strike up any interesting conversations.

[Roger_D25]

Yeah I'd like to see them all too, must be a little mountain of heatsinks, lol!

[[XC] gomeler]

I think you should post a thread in alt.personals offering the items as dowry for a new bride and see if you strike up any interesting conversations.

Aluminum might be very expensive in some locales, this might be crazy enough to work.

[ziddey]

what's a zj

[WhiteFireDragon]

hmm you wanna sell a few to me? lol i wanna try to make something out of them. like ramsinks or mosfet sinks...

[[cTx]Raptor22]

what's a zj

thats the funny part.... :rofl:

[ziddey]

Shortened form of a "Zzzz Job" (pronounced "Zee Job".)
Oral sex performed on a man while he's asleep.

Ideally: while he's experiencing morning wood and resulting in his being roused from sleep.

See also: morning head.

Note: The "ZJ" version was made famous by the (excellent) show beerfest

Q: What are you so :banana::banana::banana::banana:ing happy about?
A: My baby's momma gave me a ZJ this morning! :-D
Q: Did she swallow?
A: :banana::banana::banana::banana: yeah she swallowed; She knows not to leave a big white stain on my sheets.


lol...

i need to buy a new keyboard. really :banana::banana::banana::banana:ed this one up when i got mad playing cs just now. half the keys require so much effort to press now

[VSpecII]

Sell to Thermalright. Should be enough aluminum for at least, like, three Ultra-120s?

[LagunaX]

Place some self-adhesive rubber coasters on the bottom and sell them as a novelty corporate paperweight for $15-20 each online or at some convention or function, lol...

[The0men]

Yer I'd probably just scrap them. I definatly think you'd have been better off with the case of beer. But even taking into account perhaps they were worth something, why the heck would you buy 200 of the things lol.

[Cupcake]

Pop out the copper centers and make some nice NB LN2 Pots :D

Or you could throw them at fat kids

[The0men]

Place some self-adhesive rubber coasters on the bottom and sell them as a novelty corporate paperweight for $15-20 each online or at some convention or function, lol...

Lol thats not half a bad idea.

Or your could stick them all together and put them up in an art gallery :up:

Theres loads of that trippy wierd metal sculpture type stuff going around these days.

[cirthix]

Ask some medium-sized stores. I kind of doubt that they'll accept, but it's worth asking if they're interested in them. They could bundle them with oem procs or something.

[cadaveca]

I can get $0.50/pound for aluminium here. Copper pays almost $2. recycle them and let someone put them to a proper use...i.e. anything not related to cooling, and help the environment a bit at the same time! ;)

[fragmasterMax]

YEAH IF YOU DRILLED OUT THE MIDDLE ON THEM, you could stack them on top of each other and create a pretty sweet external radiator/ reservoir.

[fragmasterMax]

I can get $0.50/pound for aluminium here. Copper pays almost $2. recycle them and let someone put them to a proper use...i.e. anything not related to cooling, and help the environment a bit at the same time! ;)

Sorry to rain on your parade bro, but it takes huge amounts of energy to remelt these. Then they will probably just go into electrical lines, or soda cans (thrown out), or something else heavily dealing with energy. Thats the problem with recycling it takes much more energy then simple reuse.

[cadaveca]

I know...but it's better than simply sitting in a pile IMHO.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, according to Conservation Laws, so it's use to do anything plays no role in my thinking...If I was concerned about energy use affecting the environment, I wouldn't have a 30-inch monitor...

Besides..keeping conservation of energy in mind, usage of excess energy in the environment for recycling seems fine to me...this issue at hand really, is where that energy is sourced from, and the environmental impact it may have...hydro-electric has almost no emmisions, and isn't going to have any larger impact on the environment than the dam that's already there providing the power...

[Bbq]

Step 1: Buy tons of intel stock coolers
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit.

Step 1: Cut a hole in the box
Step 2: Put your junk in that box
Step 3: Make her open that box

[AliG]

what's a zj

if you have to ask you can't afford it:ROTF:

[nosboost300]

Step 1: Buy tons of intel stock coolers
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit.

Step 1: Cut a hole in the box
Step 2: Put your junk in that box
Step 3: Make her open that box

i laughed at this.. stupid underpants gnomes...

[heanwi]

You could try to build a case of them :shrug:

[Origin_Unknown]

pics!!

[naokaji]

pics!!

agree...

anyway, i'd say put them on ebay.

[Mads321]

Here are some crappy pics...

I have several boxes in my basement, but they are stacked up way behind a pile of old junk, and since my phone has no has no camera-flash, you just have to take my word on it.

Anyways, i dug one box out, and theres the result:

EDIT: Each box is ~ 60 coolers: 5*4*3. Oh, and enver mind the date on the pic's. Just my phone :banana::banana::banana::banana:ing up.

http://peecee.dk/uploads/012008/IMAGE_00019_big_thumb.jpg
http://peecee.dk/uploads/012008/IMAGE_00018_big_thumb.jpg
http://peecee.dk/uploads/012008/IMAGE_00017_big_thumb.jpg

[Origin_Unknown]

:eek:

[systemviper]

:eek2:
You know I remember reading in a thread here that the fan that goes over CPU cooler fits pretty easy over the hole on a 8800 GTS with a easy mod, and it dropped temps by 10 degrees. See where i am going here.......
You got a new biz, 8800 GTS cooler cooler

[Origin_Unknown]

Step 1: Buy tons of intel stock coolers
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit.

Step 1: Cut a hole in the box
Step 2: Put your junk in that box
Step 3: Make her open that box

ebaums by any chance?

[Mads321]

:eek2:
You know I remember reading in a thread here that the fan that goes over CPU cooler fits pretty easy over the hole on a 8800 GTS with a easy mod, and it dropped temps by 10 degrees. See where i am going here.......
You got a new biz, 8800 GTS cooler cooler

Any chance you could find a link on that... sounds like a real sweet deal!

[[XC] gomeler]

Here ya go.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=169487

[Bobsama]

Sell them on Ebay or send them to WCG crunchers!

[Pete]

Heat them all up and remove the center cooper part, flog that as copper is worth money.

Then get a copper tube that fit the ID of the aluminum part, slide all the parts on to make one big passive tube, bit of brazing and then you have a passive rad!

Ebay the left overs

[Origin_Unknown]

Heat them all up and remove the center cooper part, flog that as copper is worth money.

Then get a copper tube that fit the ID of the aluminum part, slide all the parts on to make one big passive tube, bit of brazing and then you have a passive rad!

Ebay the left overs

jesus thats a bleedin' good idea

[DaMulta]

I can get $0.50/pound for aluminium here. Copper pays almost $2. recycle them and let someone put them to a proper use...i.e. anything not related to cooling, and help the environment a bit at the same time! ;)

Yep, I thought about doing this for extra part money the other day......

[cadaveca]

yeah the only real issue is the AMT of work involved in seperating that many heatsinks...

[tiborrr]

Sell them for scrap aluminum / copper. You will definitelly make a small fortune :)

[n91htmare]

where are you located?

[Mads321]

where are you located?

Denmark

[filthysanchez]

Give them to the distributed computing folk for shipping costs, maybe a little bit extra.

[xoqolatl]

yeah the only real issue is the AMT of work involved in seperating that many heatsinks...

that's lot of work, yes, but isnt a passive rad made from 60 Intel coolers extreme?

[Tulatin]

ebaums by any chance?

I'm pretty sure :banana::banana::banana::banana: in a box has spread farther than ebaums :p:

[bball4ever39]

I'm pretty sure :banana::banana::banana::banana: in a box has spread farther than ebaums :p:
Saturday Night Live ;)

It was when justin timberlake was hosting it, they did a little music video about it.

And yes, a passive rad from 60+ coolers is xtreme, but that is what we are here for. :D

[Fujimitsu]

Could always sell them for cheap/nothing, great way to build up a TON of heat or ebay feedback.

[Boogerlad]

i saw a store selling a stock heatsink for 12.99 +tax

[cozwin]

if you sell for parts could be good money

as there quite a few parts, copper, aluminium, the plastic clips people buy these a fair bit, fans (no idea what you could do with these tbh but somone might want them

[darkone414]

I'm amazed that no one has asked yet but where the hell did you manage to buy 200 coolers at the same time lol?

[brandinb]

give the coolers to the guys doing the 8400gs benchmark competition in the benching section hehe

[Pete]

Have a go at making a rc hovercraft with them all!

[little_scrapper]

DOOD all you do is advertise them on EBay as aftermarket 8800 cooler mods and sell them fo $35 a piece. "Mounting Hardware NOT included"

All set and you make a couple thousand dollars off of your 200 coolers.

[oublie]

Sell them as novely cheese graters the grater that cools your cheese as you grate it.

Cheezey Cool - the Cheese grater that cools as it cuts!

OverClock your Cheese today!

[Boogerlad]

:rofl: :rofl: lolz. you should seriously sell it on ebay or could take out the copper part to make a cheapo ln2/dice pot.

[BrokeDown]

DOOD all you do is advertise them on EBay as aftermarket 8800 cooler mods and sell them fo $35 a piece. "Mounting Hardware NOT included"

All set and you make a couple thousand dollars off of your 200 coolers.

:up:

[Hosser]

I'd make a helicopter. Personally.

Nah. Seriously I've got about 10 myself, would love to sell them. :/

[little_scrapper]

Seriously people!! I sold my stock C2D cooler on ebay and got like $30 with the shipping for it, and it only cost me about $4.00 to ship it.

[Fujimitsu]

Seriously people!! I sold my stock C2D cooler on ebay and got like $30 with the shipping for it, and it only cost me about $4.00 to ship it.

That's awesome. Feel sorry for whatever sap bought it though....

[TheKarmakazi]

create a bodysuit for yourself to keep you cool during summer heat

[Luka_Aveiro]

Sell them to Intel.

[bobbobson]

Make the words biggest stock C2D / C2Q Cooler! Made entirely from normal ones!

[scottc19]

Hey mads have you decided what to do with these yet?

[ghost101]

They sell for ~£5+delivery each on ebay in the UK. Thats £1000. pretty reasonable.

[tbone8ty]

u could make pretty nice gpu coolers with those.

or a giant heatsink case

[Trouffman]

You can use them for an army of S775 ln2 pots xD like a guys on my fora (http://soj.mesdiscussions.net/soj/Watercooling/extreme/refroidissement-inedit-topic-sujet_2727_1.htm):

http://images.mesdiscussions.net/mesimages/93036/he1.jpg

he has soldered a tube to this base xD cheap and easy.. but about performance you can watch out !

\o/

[fragmasterMax]

the price of copper is rising by the day why not just hold onto them for a few years.

[bluep3ace]

Ask some medium-sized stores. I kind of doubt that they'll accept, but it's worth asking if they're interested in them. They could bundle them with oem procs or something.

i would think the OP got them from a medium sized pc store.

[n-sanity]

Dude's that's ebaum's worthy.

On a side note, you could easily either dremel out the middles for them, or if it's a hollowcore cooler, just heat up the other end in a furnace (wife might protest) and simply pop out the copper part.

Stack 4-5 of em together and its a $100 reservoir.

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

Don't sell them for scrap, that's just waste.

Selling them for 10-15$ on eBay. and you can make a few thousand. That is many times what you could get for scrap.

[dinos22]

now that LN2 on northbridge is becoming popular i would make some LN2 pots :D

200xLN2 pots at US$50 each should be some nice profit :D

you could braze a small copper tube on top and some foam for insulation.............that price would be reasonable

[apt403]

Pop the fans off, stack 'em all on top of each other, and make a 40ft tall HFS.

[emoners]

EDIT: Pic's added on page 2

Hi.

Some time ago, i bought 200+ intel stock coolers for approx. the price of a case of beer @ any country in the world (except maybe sweden and iceland).

So, they have been sitting in my basement all this time. Now and then, i have been thinking about what i should do with them.

As time went by, i realized, that maybe i should have kept the money, and bought myself a case of beer instead.


Now here i am, asking all of you splendid modders out there:

"What in the name of a holy cows a**hole am i gonna do with 200+ intel stock coolers"???

ANY ideas are welcome, lame as can be

Cheers, Mads321

well... you could chop & em & make beer cases :D

[JumpingJack]

Host a water skipping contest.... I, myself, would feel guilty selling the POS to some unsuspecting idiot -- it would almost be like becoming a con artist.

[ziddey]

Pop the retention pieces out and retrofit your case so that you use them to mount the motherboard onto the backplate.

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

Host a water skipping contest.... I, myself, would feel guilty selling the POS to some unsuspecting idiot -- it would almost be like becoming a con artist.

Why?

They work great for VGA coolers.

[mike8913]

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, according to Conservation Laws, so it's use to do anything plays no role in my thinking...If I was concerned about energy use affecting the environment, I wouldn't have a 30-inch monitor...



actually that not completely accurate. the law of conservation of energy is only one part of a massive formulated proof. For instance, in nuclear reactions a small ( i mean really effing small) amount of matter is either created or destroyed(depending on reaction type). So while your point is sound and makes, i just felt like rambling on about what i've learned in calculus based physics class this semester.

sorry for the OT

[cptkoulis]

Remove the fans and the clips probably,then custom paint them and sell them as "very limited edition lifestyle ashtrays" designed by an uber artist :D

[little_scrapper]

Host a water skipping contest.... I, myself, would feel guilty selling the POS to some unsuspecting idiot -- it would almost be like becoming a con artist.

How is selling your old hardware to the highest bidder like becoming a con artist. I dont see how selling your old hardware for what its worth as being a con job. You old hardware is worth what the market will bear. If the ebay market bears $15 or even $30 each then that is what they are worth. Nothing con'ish about that unless your lying about your product to get a better price.

SELL THAT CRAP AND LET US KNOW WHAT YOUR GETTING FOR THEM!!:up:

[Justintoxicated]

Well i must say.... Some pretty far out ideas so far. Might acually end up doing one of thoose things :eek:

I'd say somewhere between 5-10% of them are copper-core. Rest is pure aluminium.

I'd love to ship some of em to peeps, but i really don't think it would be worth the cost for any part.

The best idea i had myself, was to drill out the cores on a bunch of em, and then maybe superglue them together or something. Would make a pretty unique resevoir/watercooling tank.
That idea (along with basicly all other ideas i've had about them), would include me going out buying a :banana::banana::banana::banana:load of hardware (ie. drills, weldingdevices etc.).

Should any danish people with access to a machineshop or something stuble upon this tread, well you should PM me, if you would have any interest in making something with the coolers.

btw, i bought the coolers 2+ years ago, when they actually had some value :D

Be careful making thermite. Remember this is xtreme systems.

[Emerica]

I'll take one. Haha. No seriously, I will take one if you don't want them.

[lagendary_chaos]

i would like to have the all
hahhaha

[BigKriss]

You could turn them into water blocks that work pretty well ..:cool:

[Fujimitsu]

That's awesome! very creative, especially re-using the mounting system.

[[XC] gomeler]

Everything but that aluminum :-\ Otherwise a great concept :up:

[BigKriss]

I was not too concerned about the ally..I needed to find out firstly if it was going to work and secondly if the temps I was to see were any better than the ones I presently have..
It worked pretty good but I never went further with it..Might do so shortly though.

[someone1029]

actually that not completely accurate. the law of conservation of energy is only one part of a massive formulated proof. For instance, in nuclear reactions a small ( i mean really effing small) amount of matter is either created or destroyed(depending on reaction type). So while your point is sound and makes, i just felt like rambling on about what i've learned in calculus based physics class this semester.

sorry for the OT

Sorry to rain on your parade dude, but its called the conservation of energy AND matter for a reason. Matter IS energy, when matter/anti-matter is destroyed it turns into pure energy [i.e.heat and light] and it is possible to turn energy into matter/anti-matter. Hence why nuclear reactions are so powerful and why scientists around the world are trying to make anti-matter efficiently.

EDIT: Forgot to put a suggestion. I think turning them into passive reservoirs and selling them is a good idea. You could sell the mounting mechanism, fans, etc as spare parts. Nice idea with the water blocks too.

[Maarten-NForce]

What about making a giant mysterie of it?
Go out in your town at night, around 3:00 PM,
every night put one single cooler before your neighbours door :D

[Apokalipse]

200 coolers * $10 each = $2000
Sorry to rain on your parade dude, but its called the conservation of energy AND matter for a reason. Matter IS energyAnd it's where E = MC² comes from.
From a small amount of matter, you can get a huge amount of energy.
But, it takes a huge amount of energy to produce a small amount of matter.
(I know you'd know this, someone1029, this is directed to mike8913)

[RunawayPrisoner]

Sell them to people on eBay for $1 each, shipping should be around $6 or so. In the end, you get around $200 back... and I bet you can finally buy that keg of beer that you have always wanted. :up:

[ZOMGVTEK]

Ill take 10 @ $1 each. :D

[RunawayPrisoner]

Wow... see? You just made $10 easily... if you had considered selling! :D Now wait until 20 people ask you the same thing, and you'll have a nice $200 in your pocket. A keg of beer is like... what? $80? :D

[ownage]

A guy on a local forum made a phase-change tutorial on how to turn an Intel heatsink into an evapurator.
http://xs226.xs.to/xs226/08171/003211-13188.jpg

[ramrod126]

Well, since no one else said I will add my suggestion.

Drill a hole dead center through every one of them. Now mount them side by side in a huge grid on your wall. When people come over that have no idea what they are and they ask, look around nervously while saying "oh nothing, nothing" then cackle as you walk away.

[CyberDruid]

I have about 9 or 10...are you starting a collection?

[fragmasterMax]

So are these still collecting dust lol
Besides doing that i guess they are also appreciating in value....
Who knows maybe in a few years you can start using them as currency.

[Junimrox]

Making a hug hole on the middle and putting them togheter in a huge cylinder heatsink, you can use it as a cooler or heater when water comes thru it. and a very good one.

[Sorrow13]

weld 8 or 12 together engine style, fab some heatpipes down to a base, similar to the 2 big typhoon mods.

[l33t p1mp]

If you have 250 and you sell them for 10 dollars each on ebay thats 2500 dollars right there. You could buy a VERY nice pc with that money. :D

[OriginalNutta]

Make a table out of them.

Take the fan's out of a load and make 4 legs, then weld a load together for the surface and put some glass over the top of the surface.

Job's a good un

[IvanAndreevich]

I had around the same number and gradually sold them in lots of more than 30 over a year. Made good cash too.

[Mads321]

#108 @ IvanAndreevich

TELL ME 'BOUT IT! Where did you flogg the :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:s?