Apple Macbook CPU Cooling Fan -8L99 – KSB0605HC

Apple Macbook CPU Cooling Fan -8L99 – KSB0605HC

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MacBook Black A1181 2.0GHz Logic Board with base 820-1889-A 2006

• Apple MacBook 13.3″ A1181 BLACK 2.0 GHz
• Logic Board 820-1889-A
• Bottom Base
• CPU Fan with Heat Sink
• DC-In Magsafe connector

A1181 Black Bottom Base complete assembly with Motherboard, CPU Fan, Heatsink, speakers, Wireless card (aircard).
Hard Drive and Memory not included

Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 Processor SL9SL
667MHz Bus Speed
4MB shared Level 2 Cache
Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM

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The aptly named Stupid Inventions brings us a fun little diversion: the self-playing harmonica. Using nothing more than an inkjet printer, a vacvuum cleaner, and a harmonica, you can create a modern day Nickelodeon! Except, of course, it’s a harmonica, and not a piano. But still!

Complete instructions are over at Instructables. should you want to make one of these yourself. My only complaint is that the noise of the vacuum cleaner drowns out the sweet sounds of the harmonica. Surely one of our clever CrunchGear readers can improve upon this design?

And if anyone wants to one-up the Stupid Inventions crew, may I suggest rigging a kazoo up to a CPU fan?

Fans in our high-powered PCs keep getting bigger and louder, since our high-powered CPUs and high-powered video cards keep pumping out more and more heat. And no matter how “silent” they’re advertised as being, four of five of them in one case will always make some noise. So what can you do? Liquid cooling is a possibility, but installation can be complicated and failure can be catastrophic. So why not go for a passive solution? Sure, it’s not quite as “effective,” but it’s incapable of making noise — kind of like my friend’s cat.

These big-ass heatsinks just sit on top of your CPU and just let the heat seep out at its own rate. They’re so big, though, that the heat always has somewhere to go and eventually what airflow you do have (I guess you can have a couple fans) will whoosh it right out the vents.

The problem is that these heatsinks, being enormous, are also super heavy. If you’ve got a side-mounted motherboard, and 99% of you do, it’s totally inadvisable to clamp one of these suckers on there, cause it’ll probably rip the CPU right out of its seat. However, if you’ve got a HTPC that sits on its side (yet has the depth to hold one of these monsters), it won’t be a problem. Just don’t reach in there and touch it, it’s hot and sharp.