New cooling solution for Gamecube portablizing

[Redmagnusx]

Hey guys, I just wanted to share an interesting find with you all. When looking through my parts bin for things that could be of use, I stumbled upon an old broken original Xbox 360 power brick. Naturally, I started taking it apart to see if I could use anything from it. It turns out, I found the heat sink from the power brick to be perfect for cooling our portables when paired with a slim fan.









As you can see, the heat sink is tiny at 91mm x 50mm x 4mm and it covers the main board chips just right. Now I know that the IBM heat sinks are the go to for cooling our portables, but I feel that this heat sink in conjunction with a slim fan can give us a lot more flexibility when it comes to the design of our portables. They're also a lot more readily available. Let me know what you think.

Edit:

I may have found some good small fans to add to this.

Here:

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/e ... ND/2242564






At 30mm x 30mm x3mm these fans are TINY. The decibel levels are fairly reasonable for a fan this size and the air flow is not bad either. I imagine two of these should be enough to keep things cool. The model number is UB5U3-700.

[emu_kidid]

how do you plan on securing it to the mainboard, not saying this isn't a good find, just curious how people do that

[Redmagnusx]

I use a two part thermal adhesive called Arctic Silver 7g. It does a great job holding the heat sink in place and it also does the job of thermal paste.

Here's a link.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835100005

[Redmagnusx]

I edited the first post with a possible fan solution.

[iamdablasta]

digikey url 404's by the way...

[Redmagnusx]

Odd... It's working fine for me. I just changed it. Try it now.

[badsector]

Doesn't work for me either. Maybe you should not link the search, but some of the search results directly.

[Redmagnusx]

That's the weird thing, I did not link the search, the link is for the direct page of the fan. The model of the fan is UB5U3-700. I'll post the picture for you guys instead.

[megalomaniac]

Added alternate link in first post to digikey

[Redmagnusx]

Added alternate link in first post to digikey

Thank you. I have no idea why the first one was busted.