What do you do with older CPU Coolers?

[EnergyEclipse]

From all of the systems I've pulled from skips, be donated and have salvaged from there is one thing I have always kept  a hold of regardless of condition. That being the CPU Cooler. I have those fiddly rather apache helicopter like Intel stock coolers, the wind whistling FM2+ coolers and the rather laughable remains of OEM Cooler Master coolers.

 

But what do you do with them? Do you zip tie them to the wrong sockets, or leave them for use in a system you'll probably actually never restore?

Let me know by leaving a reply down below!

[themctipers]

keep them around and use them as size references to photos i might post on discord.

[sazrocks]

Save them for the rainy day that your cpu fan dies on.

[porina]

Maybe not "older" cooler but certainly a spare cooler...

[Guest]

 

 

[MadModder]

@fpo That is epic, rofl. I use my old ones to cut up/scavenge to make custom mod stuff. Fins, blocks, heat tubes, etc. can come in handy. Thinking about making something for an M.2 drive. Not needed, but that's beside the point as I'm ... mad as a hatter. They do run remarkably hot though, and I wonder what the long term effects will be on the bits underneath them on the mobo. Sooo...why not. Can't really do anything big right now, so it's more of something to keep me busy.

[SCHISCHKA]

i would weld them together to make one large super heatsink.

[ARikozuM]

38 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

Save them for the rainy day that your cpu fan dies on.

What? If your fan dies, your cooler becomes useless? 

 

Personally, I sell the metal to scrapyards or use them for donated or sold builds. 

[Trevor87]

But them in recycling if you have no use for them they can be made in to many things. 

[TetraSky]

I put them in my box of old cpu cooler and throw said box back in the closet, to be forgotten until the time when I have yet another cpu cooler to get rid of arise.

[sazrocks]

24 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

What? If your fan dies, your cooler becomes useless? 

Pretty much. Its not like I have a bunch of high SP fans lying around.

[amancalledoss]

I have a box filled with them, all carefully cleaned and stacked nicely. One I chopped up to see if I could make a heatsink for a Raspberry Pi which actually made the Pi heat up alarmingly so that was thrown out .

Eventually I will die and by then hopefully there will be a few more boxes of them around which I can leave to my children , who can weigh them in for scrap metal prices which will be enough to buy a cardboard box to bury me in 

[Princess Luna]

1 hour ago, fpo said:

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Why would any one heat food to then cool it? You should eat stuff hot.

[Gung Pow Chicken]

I like to make random  crap, so I keep most of the electrical and depending on the heatsink size I'll keep that too

[Guest]

8 hours ago, MadModder said:

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Sounds cool! If you get a microcomputer like a raspberry pi or arduino I hear they make heat sinks for them. Maybe you can do a youtube tutorial on how to make your own haha. 

7 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Why would any one heat food to then cool it? You should eat stuff hot.

Haha, you should definitely eat it hot. But because a Microwave is designed to boil water as swiftly as possible, it'd be like licking a pot of boiling spaghetti hahaha. 

...Or Spatzle if you have it in your region. 

[kaiju_wars]

4 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Why would any one heat food to then cool it? You should eat stuff hot.

Yes, one eats food when it's hot, but not where it burns their mouth.

[it_dont_work]

11 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

i would weld them together to make one large super heatsink.

Literally what I used to learn welding aluminum with a mig.

[Peskanova]

i got in 2 weeks 3 coolers first my cheap new rig with a brand new 4790k xDDD was with a nox hummer low profile fan that doesnt fit well and bought a fast-buy cheap aio single 12 fan and that was a decent solution but i was tempted and bought a nh d15 and now have 1 aio and 1 decent cooler to look at my failures

 

Hmm with my aio + my 14 nox hummer i can make a hybrid gpu XDDD ! only need a crappy gpu to test xDDD maybe with a 7770hd from my friend hmmmm! hmmmm!!!

 

[iiNNeX]

Bin them if they are worthless, or re-sell them. Like any normal person should lol

[JakeNTech]

[Donut417]

15 hours ago, EnergyEclipse said:

From all of the systems I've pulled from skips, be donated and have salvaged from there is one thing I have always kept  a hold of regardless of condition. That being the CPU Cooler. I have those fiddly rather apache helicopter like Intel stock coolers, the wind whistling FM2+ coolers and the rather laughable remains of OEM Cooler Master coolers.

 

But what do you do with them? Do you zip tie them to the wrong sockets, or leave them for use in a system you'll probably actually never restore?

Let me know by leaving a reply down below!

Id look at Copper or aluminium pricing depending on what the cooler is made out of. Might be worth money in scrap. 

[EnergyEclipse]

7 hours ago, Donut417 said:

Id look at Copper or aluminium pricing depending on what the cooler is made out of. Might be worth money in scrap. 

Not a bad idea! Although were I live the car scrap yards take cars like the older Citroen Picassos and Vauxhall Corsas off you for literally £11, so for a CPU which pales in metal weight compared I don't think they'd be any point

[EnergyEclipse]

8 hours ago, fixitnow said:

:Oooo NOICE! Although how exactly do you fit the drive in drive caddies now?

 

[EnergyEclipse]

8 hours ago, Peskanova said:

i got in 2 weeks 3 coolers first my cheap new rig with a brand new 4790k xDDD was with a nox hummer low profile fan that doesnt fit well and bought a fast-buy cheap aio single 12 fan and that was a decent solution but i was tempted and bought a nh d15 and now have 1 aio and 1 decent cooler to look at my failures

 

Hmm with my aio + my 14 nox hummer i can make a hybrid gpu XDDD ! only need a crappy gpu to test xDDD maybe with a 7770hd from my friend hmmmm! hmmmm!!!

 

Hmmmmmmmmmmm! Shall you wish you can have of my ancient 7500 LE GPU Lel send a picture to EVGA and say you have a few ideas for there next hybrid card pls

[EnergyEclipse]

8 hours ago, iiNNeX said:

Bin them if they are worthless, or re-sell them. Like any normal person should lol

I stay by my words with computer components, if it functions as it should, then there shall be little reason to throw it ou I And that's the whole point of this thread lol