4/26/2004 11:18:37 PM|||Joe|||I modded my case which held my intel. I plan to do finishing touches later this summer, but for now its cool.

I added a blow hole above the CPU with a fan so it can exhaust the high temperatures in there. The Celeron 1.7 was cooking at 60C, so I needed to resolve that.

When I removed the heatsink I was somewhat stumped because I actually never took off a stock Intel HSF. This system was the first Intel system I put together, so it was a learning experience. So I remember all I had to do was snap the four corners over the slots for it to snap in and pull the levers opposite of each other. That was fine, then I figured how to uninstall it, by pulling the two sides apart to release from the slots. I felt silly for not trying that afterwards, yet I learned something, so it was an OK feeling.

Anyways, I remember the stock black paint intel paints on, that stuff is useless and was a bitch to take off. I found some of my 600 grit paper and sanded it off the heatsink. Yuck, it was like tar, so I did it, and while I was at it I lapped it to a mirror finish.

The processor I wasnt gonna sand it, so I used rubbing alcohol and cleaned it over and over until all the black matter was gone. Now I am about to put it in my case, and do more cable management, to try to keep air moving in it.

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