G3258 passive cooling

[stree]

Just a thought. I want as silent as poss MITX build on a non-overclock G3258.
Not seen any market solution for it. But......I do have gathering dust an old P4 MB with a Core2duo CPU...This has a passive cooler on it.
TDP is about the same ( Duo is higher I think) so considering a hack to mount it to the newer socket..............Just wondered if any one had any advice on going about this.
The cooler is one that had a brief appearance but worked well and got good reviews, solid copper with the fins shaped as a butterfly. Forget what it was called.

 

[PooKer]

Pics may help

 

[PurplePhoenix]

Its possible but you still need fans to get the heat out of the case. You be better off with some kind of noctua heatsink/ fans set up with low rpm

 

[ShivP]

There are these "nofan" coolers and such, but they are large and so unlikely to fit in an mITX PC

As above, your best bet is just a nice high end air cooler with a program such as speedfan to keep the RPMs nice and low

 

[stree]

I realise I need at least nominal air movement, I can achieve this by using a 120mm slow spinner for negative or positive pressure or 2 x 80MM such as Gelid Silent with resistors fo establish a throughflow. Plenty of fans and controllers to play with, thats not really the issue, what I am trying to establish is if anyone has made up a bracket to adapt a bare heatsink to an115* mounting.
I will probably have a go myself, just that if its already been done it might speed up the job.. Seems a pity to waste two heavy copper heatsinks.

 

[Telecaster]

My G3258 is passively cooled at 4.6ghz no problem, so long as you don't run Prime95 or something daft like that then it's not a problem.