Adding extra cooling to your ibook g4/macbook

Step 5 Final thoughts

You will notice that after about 10 minutes, the heat sinks will be very warm, if not hot. This is a good sign that it is working well. If you use a external display, an idea would be to use a heat sink/fan combination and power it off the usb port. But being as I DO use my screen, I'm leaving it like this. I did also notice that my fan doesn't come on nearly as much as it did. Enjoy, and try not to make a mess with thermal paste. If you need to clean it off, wait till it's cooled down, and use rubbing alchohol. Also, can someone tell me how the hell you add the notes to the picture in mac os x? It just keeps wanting to drag the picture out of the window. I even downloaded firefox to try.

Comments

[Astinsan]

The GPU is the problem in these macs... its on the bottom of the board. Shimming the gpu,cpu and chipset would be a better solution. Shimming can be done with silver heat sink compound and aluminum sheetmetal. Your going to have to figure out the best thickness to use.

[cvogt1]

wow dude, wow