athlon or socket 478 cooler on a conroe?

[ripit]

I just got an e6300 and motherboard. The processor was oem so I'm looking for a heatsink to use for now till I find something beter. I proabably have a couple of hundred dollars worth of unused heatsinks laying around (you can proabably tell I havent made the best decisions in the past), and hate to throw more money out there on a heatsink that is just going to wind up in a drawer. I just need something for now till I have time to find what I really want (maybe water cooling, I already have an lga 775 water block but would need several other things including another case sutable for watercooling).

Is there any reason that I couldn't make an adapter plate or something to use one of my exsisting heatsinks, just for now? I have spare socket a, and socket 939 heatsinks, and one that is adaptable for socket a, 939 or 478 (but not lga 775). It won't be overclocked with this heatsink anyway.
Here is the one that I think would be most easilly adapted.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835183107
http://www.aerocool.us/p-cooler/ht-101/ht101.htm

I also have a cooler master xdream, a thermal take volcano 11, a swifttech mcx6400-v, a cooler master jet7, and a few others that are not in use including some stock heatsinks (for other sockets, not for lga775).

 

[enz660]

if they didnt come with lga775 mounting kit, you are going to have to figure out a way to fabricate some brackets or modify the existing ones. Get some aluminum sheets (I got mine at ace hardware) and some epoxy. You can make some extensions for the second heatsink's brackets until they fit the lga775 holes. Then just use some nuts & bolts adn you should be ok. Hope that helped....

 

[ripit]

if they didnt come with lga775 mounting kit, you are going to have to figure out a way to fabricate some brackets or modify the existing ones. Get some aluminum sheets (I got mine at ace hardware) and some epoxy. You can make some extensions for the second heatsink's brackets until they fit the lga775 holes. Then just use some nuts & bolts adn you should be ok. Hope that helped....

Actually, that helped quite a bit because it gave me an idea. I had planned on fabricating a bracket. I have several old computer cases (old at cases, not worth anything). I was just going to use sheet metal from one of them (some of them are pretty heavy walled). The only thing that I was worried about was that if the metal was too soft, it would loose tension over time and get loose (become bent, and that could be a problem if it happens quick). One of the heatsinks has a socket 478 bracket (spring steel) so I could just make a little adapter bracket for each side to extend the holes out and that should work better than trying to make one (and would be a lot easier). As far as the back plate, fortunatlly socket lga775 has the same footprint as a 80mm fan so I can just use a fan grill and some thin foam rubber. thanks for the idea of modding rather than fabricating a mount (not sure why I didn't think of it).
Ultimatlly, I don't mind paying 40-50$ for a good heatsink, unless I go water cooling, I just don't want to jump the gun and get a heatsink that won't let me overclock much down the road (and have the money wasted). If I can get one I got to work, it will give me some time to figure out what I want but be able to get the board up and running now.

 

[enz660]

I know what you mean. When I got my conroe system, I spent 16 bucks on a AC Freezer 7 Pro. With a few cheap mods, it turned out to be better than my stock scythe infinity...im struggling to lower the temps.

 

[Mycobacteria]

Im sure you can find a second hand stock cooler somewere look how many people upgrade their HSFs!