Tired you say, Not me...

   Ughhh, is it 4 in the morning. Yep. Damn me for waking up late on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I find it hard to get to sleep those nights. I can usually get away with with sleeping late but sometimes it gets me. This is the second Wednesday that this has happened. I don't think I'll be working on my paper today. Luckily, I have around six days to get done with it. Uhhhhh, what was I going to talk about. Oh yea...

   You see, I love my little 'ole B&W G3. So, thoughts have recently been entering my head about overclocking its frontside bus; I'm already as far as I can get processor-clock-speed-wise. Sadly, reports of OCing the B&W's frontside bus speed to 133MHz are not good. Also, OCing it to 120MHz is stable but lowers the PCI clock-speed down some.

   So, what am I suppose to do. Well, I'm going to add a heatsink to the 'Grackle' chip, the PCI/Memory controller, on the motherboard. It's just asking for a heatsink by the way it looks.

   Looking online at FrozenCPU.com, I happened upon some nice little silver chipset heatsinks that would match the inside of the B&W just right. Sadly, they cost money. That was a strike against them in my book. Nevertheless, that wasn't going to stop me. Looking around my room this time, my eyes feel upon an 'ole ixMicro MacRocket that I bought on eBay some time ago. Its heatsink was just the right size; although black in color as opposed to silver. It wouldn't miss it. For one thing, it doesn't work. Secondly, I have no use for it. Despite these points, I would find some way of getting that heatsink off without any damage to the card.

   A quick search online gave me the idea I was looking for. Apparently putting the card in the freezer for about an hour would sufficiently weaken the epoxy holding the heatsink to the GPU. Thus, I was able to easily procure the needed heatsink.

   Now, I just need some thermal adhesive and a proper way to mount it to the motherboard. Yes, I'll think on that. Oh, I will...