GC Mainboard trim question

[emu_kidid]

Just curious if the area covered in yellow is safe to cut? is it just making for a better GND connection or something else?

[infact]

Could be not connected as well.

[Ashen]

You can cut all the way back to the red lines in that pic and the GC will still work.

[emu_kidid]

thanks, did the trim, all is well.. now to find some good heatsinks

[emu_kidid]

another question, trim related but not quite mainboard

Can I trim the heatsink using a standard dremel with the normal cutting discs? has anyone tried it, will sparks fly everywhere, cutting discs shatter and explode? I don't want to trim the base, just a few "fins" will need to be shortened

[Ashen]

you can do it with a dremel, but it might not be very easy or go very smoothly. Someone on the benheck or modretro forums showed a method where they scored the fins with an exact-o knife and then broke them off.

I have around 12 of these if you'd like one or two, I can ship along with your adapters. They are 1cm even height:

[emu_kidid]

oh yes please!

[Ashen]

Have I mentioned that I'm infinitely curious as to what you're up to?

[emu_kidid]

whatever I'm up to (which you'll know shortly) - it's 95% done apart from proper cooling I tried using the N64 heatsinks but they just don't cut it - after 5 mins the cpu was almost as hot as my soldering iron :p

pics soon, I promise

[Ashen]

Wow! That's awesome man. Lets hope it doesn't take quite so damn long for these to reach you as the other thing I sent...

[Ashen]

Double post... sorry.

Here's a nice thin cheap fan our man Tchay found that should work quite nicely for our projects. If you're interested that is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... TM:US:1123

Depending on what you're up to though, you may be able to get away with just sitting the stock GC fan on top of the heatsink.

[emu_kidid]

I wasn't thinking on top directly, but perhaps elsewhere with some guiding plastic to flow the air through the heatsink..