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Just curious if the area covered in yellow is safe to cut? is it just making for a better GND connection or something else?

Could be not connected as well.

You can cut all the way back to the red lines in that pic and the GC will still work.

thanks, did the trim, all is well.. now to find some good heatsinks

another question, trim related but not quite mainboard

Can I trim the heatsink using a standard dremel with the normal cutting discs? has anyone tried it, will sparks fly everywhere, cutting discs shatter and explode? I don't want to trim the base, just a few "fins" will need to be shortened

you can do it with a dremel, but it might not be very easy or go very smoothly. Someone on the benheck or modretro forums showed a method where they scored the fins with an exact-o knife and then broke them off.

I have around 12 of these if you'd like one or two, I can ship along with your adapters. They are 1cm even height:

oh yes please!

Have I mentioned that I'm infinitely curious as to what you're up to?

whatever I'm up to (which you'll know shortly) - it's 95% done apart from proper cooling I tried using the N64 heatsinks but they just don't cut it - after 5 mins the cpu was almost as hot as my soldering iron :p

pics soon, I promise

Wow! That's awesome man. Lets hope it doesn't take quite so damn long for these to reach you as the other thing I sent...

Double post... sorry.

Here's a nice thin cheap fan our man Tchay found that should work quite nicely for our projects. If you're interested that is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... TM:US:1123

Depending on what you're up to though, you may be able to get away with just sitting the stock GC fan on top of the heatsink.

I wasn't thinking on top directly, but perhaps elsewhere with some guiding plastic to flow the air through the heatsink..