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I am confused about heatsinks that would fit Frankenpad. I plan to use T61 motherboard 42W7872 and T60 15" 4:3 FRU 41W6360 as chassis [ here is the picture: http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/1184/41w6360.jpg ]

Is my understanding right that both heatsinks 42W2821 and 42W2820 will fit?
Or I have to choose particular one of them?
Or maybe the original heatsink that is visible on the above picture would be OK after I change the motherboard?

I would appreciate if you could give some FRU numbers for heatsinks that would be appropriate for 42W7872/41W6360 combination Frankenpad.

thank you,
geos

Since the board you're using 42w7872 (very rare board by the way) has Intel integrated graphics and no discrete graphics chip, you can use your original T60 heatsink, or any T61 heatsink except one from the smaller 14.1" widescreen. It's hard to tell from your photo but it looks like your T60 is aoready fitted with a T61 heatsink so I'd keep it as long as it works well.

Good luck and happy frankNpadding.

TuuS wrote:Since the board you're using 42w7872 (very rare board by the way) has Intel integrated graphics and no discrete graphics chip, you can use your original T60 heatsink, or any T61 heatsink except one from the smaller 14.1" widescreen. It's hard to tell from your photo but it looks like your T60 is aoready fitted with a T61 heatsink so I'd keep it as long as it works well.

Good luck and happy frankNpadding.

Thanks TuuS! This chasis is not mine yet, I just got the picture and wanted to ask if it would be fine for my plans. From you're saying it will be OK with the heatsink included so it looks like I'm gonna spend some money now

thanks
geos

I'm not exactly sure why you're buying that chassis, I assumed it was your T60 and you knew it was in good working condition, but now that I take a closer look at it, it appears that heatsink might be damaged. Look at the area at about 11 o'clock on the fan, it appears to be smashed... or perhaps it's just a bad photo.

By the way, if you're going to buy a T60 piece by piece, you'll spend a fortune on it by the time you're done, you'd be better off buying a complete laptop then putting your 42w7872 board in it.