K7SEM Replacement Fan ?

I have a K7SEM with fitted (soldered) 1200 MHz Duron (IIRC). The noise from
the original fan is very high so I want to fit a better and hopefully
quieter fan. Will it take the same type of fan as a socketed processor or
is there a special for when the chip is soldered direct to the PCB ?

thanks
Chris

The heat sink is stuck to the processor with four small blobs of a hard glue
that seems somewhat like epoxy. The heat sink will remove, however, with
judicious application of a straight screwdriver and hammer. Motherboard out of
the case, please, so that you can get the proper angle. A regular Socket A h/s
and fan will then fit in it's place. I did it once to fix an overheating
processor. Worked fine. My heart probably wouldn't feel as much of a strain the
second time.(In other words, I was terrified that I would destroy the guy's
board). Good luck.
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Chris and Patsy wrote:

> I have a K7SEM with fitted (soldered) 1200 MHz Duron (IIRC). The noise from
> the original fan is very high so I want to fit a better and hopefully
> quieter fan. Will it take the same type of fan as a socketed processor or
> is there a special for when the chip is soldered direct to the PCB ?
>
> thanks
> Chris

Oops, I forgot to mention that you should remove the old blobs of glue from the
processor before putting your heat transfer paste and h/s on. The blobs of glue
hold the new h/s too far off the processor.
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Chris and Patsy wrote:

> I have a K7SEM with fitted (soldered) 1200 MHz Duron (IIRC). The noise from
> the original fan is very high so I want to fit a better and hopefully
> quieter fan. Will it take the same type of fan as a socketed processor or
> is there a special for when the chip is soldered direct to the PCB ?
>
> thanks
> Chris

I bought a Coolermaster Socket A Fan/Heatsink and set to on the
motherboard.

Found it quite easy to remove the heatsink from the processor, simply
levered it off, the glue broke away no problem. Then found the new
heatsink was too big, it fouled on some of the components. Spotted
that the fan mounting holes are the same as on the new fan so I
swapped the fans over and put the original heatsink back (with some
silicon grease of course !).

Its now much quiter, in fact below the noise from the PSU fan. the
processor sits happily at 50degreeC, I guess thats OK ?

Chris

(Anybody need a spare heatsink or noisy fan ?!)

Ken McNairn <> wrote in message news:<>...
> The heat sink is stuck to the processor with four small blobs of a hard glue
> that seems somewhat like epoxy. The heat sink will remove, however, with
> judicious application of a straight screwdriver and hammer. Motherboard out of
> the case, please, so that you can get the proper angle. A regular Socket A h/s
> and fan will then fit in it's place. I did it once to fix an overheating
> processor. Worked fine. My heart probably wouldn't feel as much of a strain the
> second time.(In other words, I was terrified that I would destroy the guy's
> board). Good luck.
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>
> Chris and Patsy wrote:
>
> > I have a K7SEM with fitted (soldered) 1200 MHz Duron (IIRC). The noise from
> > the original fan is very high so I want to fit a better and hopefully
> > quieter fan. Will it take the same type of fan as a socketed processor or
> > is there a special for when the chip is soldered direct to the PCB ?
> >
> > thanks
> > Chris