It's probably far too long ago for anyone to remember, but I did post a thread when I first started this project.
I can't be bothered to go an look for it right now (and I don't even know if it's still around, probably lost in the crash)

Anyway, the chipset cooler on my Neo2 had annoyed me for long enough with it's high pitched fan noise.

The solution was the copper baseplate from a stock AXP heatsink combined with an aluminium pentium heatsink.
It is a little bit ghetto, and I didn't take pictures as I went along as I just wanted to get it done.

Here are a couple of pictures from the original thread





The the piece of copper is thicker than that flimsy aluminium sheet with a fan stuck to it. Drilled holes in it.

And this is what I did yesterday



Small pentium heatsink superglued to the copper (with thermal paste as well of course)



It installed in the system. Re-used the push pins from the original heatsink.

Temperatures are roughly the same, if not better from what I can tell and there is no more fan noise.
It's a bit easier to get at the latch for the AGP slot now as well.

awesome mod, very nice

It's a little half-arsed, but it does the job ok.

who cares if its silent and cools well

hey jammin nice mod there i know what you mean about the noise i normally just turn the fan off as its doesnt seem to make a difference to my temps a little off topic but have you had much luck overclocking on your board as mine seems to suck

we have really similar specs Opty 146 1gb geil value Tagan 480 -u01

Well, I run my 3000+ @2.25ghz 24/7
So that's running the HTT at 250mhz. The RAM is running on a divider so it's at about 205Mhz

I haven't pushed it recently, but I have had it close to 2.4Ghz.
The board does 280+ HTT from what I can remember.
The RAM does about 230mhz.
I've never the CPU voltage up that high because my cooling isn't that great and I like it to be quiet.

I'm pretty happy with where I am at the moment but may push it again at some point.
It's my only system so I don't really take too many risks with it.

I have that exact same board and I like it for ocing...i have a AMD Athlon 64 3500+ oc to 2.42...and its stable

I like that mod idea, that fan is extrely annoying, every once and a while mine will get a really bad whine sound to it, and I know its that one because i unplug it and the whine stops...plug it back in and it starts back up...but good idea and I might have to do it if I keep this board...I need PCI-E, AGP is making me mad...