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Prince21
08-28-2009, 01:39 PM
Hi people,

I got this media device and the cooling with it was not all good..
I basically need to cool the chip I have circled..It gets very hot as its a media chip. Originally it had a cheap flat heatsink...

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/2362/img1262qji.jpg

I was going to use akasa special tape to stick a heatsink down to the chip, also dont mind a really silent fan as this can be added to go with the heatsink...
Therefore no need for special screw space..

Here are some ideas:

http://www.enzotechnology.com/air_cooling.htm
http://www.enzotechnology.com/cnb_s1l.htm
http://www.enzotechnology.com/slf_1.htm

Only problem is I dont know how well these heatsinks are at cooling hot chips as the chip process 1080p video..

Any help or advice will be very helpful

Thank you..

KILLER_K
08-28-2009, 08:17 PM
If you had some old 486 heatsink/fans laying around that would work out great also. But those enzo's look very nice and i'm not sure how much space you have but you could go larger then a 486 if you have the space for a bigger one.

Prince21
08-29-2009, 12:04 AM
I will cut the case so it is custom to the heatsink I add one...

Any more ideas

Serra
09-02-2009, 10:39 AM
Was the chip originally run passively? If so, then really any thermal solution should work. Some chips are designed to take a brutal amount of heat.

I am not sure about the size of the chip, but if it's about northbridge size I would go for the tallest Enzo NB cooler that will fit. If it's larger or smaller by enough that it's not worth it, I would get a pack of the GPU memory coolers and stick on as many as you can fit.