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Pictures, and a few words about a giga-quad, crazy-cool, big typhoon duo - Page 4

By Greig Mackenzie

(See also, Part 2: Custom DQ6/TTBT Heatsink Fan Duct Mod)

Artic Silver application and mounting the TTBT

31. Artic Silver 5 applied. Good quantity, dreadful example. Note, it is very hard to be careful placing the TTBT onto the CPU here with this 'bolt-on' method, DQ6 radiators, TTBT fins and pipes and those damn little nuts. Haven't found M3 wing nuts yet. Keep a look out--bound to be helpful!

32. Damn little nuts! Damn stumpy fingers! This is the hardest part of the whole process. If you don't have 'the mini claw', get one!

33. We're human, we're smart, right? A little something sticky on your finger is my best tip for those damn little nuts. 'Blue-tack' or 'Yellow-ta.. something' is what we use in here in Australia. Chewing gum? Probably too messy. See...

34. ...you have to get it off the nuts too. Blue-tack (for sticking up posters on your walls) is ideal. Comes right off and leave little or no residue behind.

35. One nut on, three to go. See the almost 5mm of bolt protruding before the nut is on. Not a lot to work with, hence the suggestion for 40-45mm bolts. By the way, forget trying to keep the TTBT still on your grain of AS5. It's impossible. You can keep it to a minimum though, and I believe the AS5 has squeezed out fairly evening once the nuts got tightened methodically by a spanner (i.e., post finger-tightening), quarter-turns-at-a-time.

NOTE: Another 'must-know' tip for those damn little nuts - use a socket between your fingers, without the driver, to tighten the nuts. Sorry, no picture.

36. Nearly there.

37. 38. All done. I hope.

39. Radiator fins, meet Aluminium fins.

40. All done!

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