Man, I HATE Heatsinks With Intel Pins!

I just got done working on one of my workhorse number-crunching computers
which labor ceaselessly in the back room in the basement running the World
Community Grid BOINC client. I was installing a new junk-box build computer
and thought to check the temperatures on an old i7-920 Bloomfield processor
in another system. 98C! No idea how long this machine had been running at
the thermal throttling temperature. I took it down and put it on the bench
to clean out a few generations of spiders and a lot of dust and found that
the stock Intel heatsink was no longer clamped down properly because the
damned Intel pin(s) had popped loose. After cleaning everything inside,
cleaning off the old heatsink compound, applying new Arctic Silver, and
VERY carefully reclamping the heatsink pins (which takes way to long for
something that should be simple) I ran it up on the bench to find that the
core temperatures are 75C running all 8 threads at 100% load. If it wasn't
a junker I'd consider buying a new heatsink but anything efficient for the
LGA1366 package costs a small fortune -- probably would double the value of
the system by adding one.

Maybe it is time to consider not running so many 135W TDP systems 24X7 to
see if my power bill goes down...

John McGaw wrote:
I just got done working on one of my workhorse number-crunching
computers which labor ceaselessly in the back room in the basement
running the World Community Grid BOINC client. I was installing a new
junk-box build computer and thought to check the temperatures on an old
i7-920 Bloomfield processor in another system. 98C! No idea how long
this machine had been running at the thermal throttling temperature. I
took it down and put it on the bench to clean out a few generations of
spiders and a lot of dust and found that the stock Intel heatsink was no
longer clamped down properly because the damned Intel pin(s) had popped
loose. After cleaning everything inside, cleaning off the old heatsink
compound, applying new Arctic Silver, and VERY carefully reclamping the
heatsink pins (which takes way to long for something that should be
simple) I ran it up on the bench to find that the core temperatures are
75C running all 8 threads at 100% load. If it wasn't a junker I'd
consider buying a new heatsink but anything efficient for the LGA1366
package costs a small fortune -- probably would double the value of the
system by adding one.

Maybe it is time to consider not running so many 135W TDP systems 24X7
to see if my power bill goes down...

That's one of the reasons I really like heatsinks
that screw into place.

You could always do a ghetto heatsink retainer.

http://teamlosi.andrevas.net/pics/si...c/P2170036.JPG

http://teamlosi.andrevas.net/pics/si...c/P2170042.JPG

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/s...06#post5497006

So the thing would be down for a few weeks, while
you hack saw and file a solution up :-)

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There are instructions out there, for removing an Intel
push pin (without cutting it necessarily).

But the chances of finding a retail bolt thru kit
for what you've got, what are the odds ?

Paul