hey man, no rush, if it works, then awesome...
the only thing i can see wrong with doing this on an athlon is the stress on the core...attatching stuff permanently to the core seems like it woult be dangerous...like if you have to take the cpu out, it might take the core off...just snap it off the ceramic or organic (depending on whether you are using a thunderbird, or an xp) casing, and you would have a silver plate or heatsink fused to a useless core.
however, if you figure it out, and figure it out pretty good, it might be a good way to mount heatsinks to ram chips and so forth...and it would assure no interference in heat transfer from the chip to the heatsink...
and hey, if you made the heatsink out of silver, like make it out of a silver coin or something...
might work...
i wish i had done stuff like fusing silver to something in chemistry...hehe
-DAvid
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