I did this to my cable modem, and Dlink Gaming Router as well. Both have super hot running VSLI chips in them. Pick heat sinks with lots of veins on them... aluminum is best, copper is even better. Make sure they lie flat against the chip and aren't held aloft by some other part. Using finger tip smear a bit of common grease on top of chip, razor thin (people use to much), and then mount heat sink by pressing it on and using hot glue gun on all four corners until glue cools.
486 and Pentium 1 heatsinks work great too.. and they are free. I take off the cases on all my networking equipment and put heatsinks on all the VSLI hot running chips. These companies think these devices will run always in a 72 degrees air conditioned house, but that is not the case. We don't use any air conditioning at all,and it can get 90 degrees in the house. If your heatsink hits parts on the board, remove areas of it with a drill metal cutting disk or dremel tool.
Actually, the top of the heatsink isn't as hot as I mention before, I would say the top of the heatsink has 70% of the heat of the Broadcom chip alone. But the bottom of the heatsink is really hot almost as hot as the heat of the Broadcom chip alone,, I would say the heat here is about 90%.
these heatsink transfers alot of heat from the broadcom ship, when i touched the installed heatsink , it feels like almost as hot as the touch of the broadcom chip alone!!! these heatsinks really do transfers alot of heat!
I did this to my cable modem, and Dlink Gaming Router as well. Both have super hot running VSLI chips in them. Pick heat sinks with lots of veins on them... aluminum is best, copper is even better. Make sure they lie flat against the chip and aren't held aloft by some other part. Using finger tip smear a bit of common grease on top of chip, razor thin (people use to much), and then mount heat sink by pressing it on and using hot glue gun on all four corners until glue cools.
cobrachoppergirl 10 months ago
486 and Pentium 1 heatsinks work great too.. and they are free. I take off the cases on all my networking equipment and put heatsinks on all the VSLI hot running chips. These companies think these devices will run always in a 72 degrees air conditioned house, but that is not the case. We don't use any air conditioning at all,and it can get 90 degrees in the house. If your heatsink hits parts on the board, remove areas of it with a drill metal cutting disk or dremel tool.
cobrachoppergirl 10 months ago
What were those problems before you installed the heatsink? That would be pretty handy to know. :)
r8448 1 year ago
Actually, the top of the heatsink isn't as hot as I mention before, I would say the top of the heatsink has 70% of the heat of the Broadcom chip alone. But the bottom of the heatsink is really hot almost as hot as the heat of the Broadcom chip alone,, I would say the heat here is about 90%.
kenlili 2 years ago
Or they just get heat up by the Broadcom chip and holds the heat in the heatsink. lol
Where can i get some temperture checking device?
kenlili 2 years ago
these heatsink transfers alot of heat from the broadcom ship, when i touched the installed heatsink , it feels like almost as hot as the touch of the broadcom chip alone!!! these heatsinks really do transfers alot of heat!
kenlili 2 years ago
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kenlili 2 years ago
are there glues pre-apply on the heatsinks? or we have to apply something like artic silver 5 onto it?
kenlili 2 years ago
what about RAM and Flash mem ?
saadoberh 2 years ago
Did the heatsinks work for you?
xxxPLAYGTA4xxx 2 years ago
They seem to work. I don't know what the temps were of the unit before hand, but I have not had a problem since I installed the heatsinks.
captainzerocool 2 years ago
Ok, thinks. Im probably going to get the same heatsinks for the broadcom chip on my WRT54G2
xxxPLAYGTA4xxx 2 years ago
The temp of the cpu is pretty hot, hot enough to cause pain to my finger immediately of touch. the hot temp was generating without over clock.
kenlili 2 years ago
It was a wrt54gl version 1.1 i touched. it is fucking hot!!
kenlili 2 years ago