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Hexus has posted up an article on Extreme Cooling.



.. just ran out of time as it was all done in the space of 4 hrs .Hell thats what grease is for .. fill the slight inadequacies of the surface :-):) To the left of that we have the back brace, which has a curved lip to put pressure downwards on the asus slocket. The slocket is bottom left, again i strived for a nice flat copper finish for the celeron 400 , as this transfers heat better than the standard tin surface. To the right of that we have the 4 60watt TECs , the bottom one needed a silicon repair on one of the corners. Each one draws 5 watts at 14 v and makes about 9 C temperature difference when the cpu is 100 % busy @ 744 mhz @ 2.4v . Finally bottom right we have the front brace, this time the curved lip holds the aluminium water block upwards. Effectively its a sandwitch design with a lower and upper lipped braces holding aluminium heatexchanger up and slocket down under tension ....
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