[WTB][US] Thermalright SI-128 SE bottom screws for P4 LGA 775

While looking how to cool P4 better, I was choosed this nice heatsink:



However it is a bit old, so I had to take a secondhad one. While the user claims that he used it for P4 to cool, then I did not expected any problems with missing parts.
I was wrong. Somewhere in the translation get missing the holding bottom screws for the backplate. These in the red rectangle, the "tyhle mi chybí" words means "I missing these":



As sign of irony, I got these screws that I did not need - for the other (AMD and such) supported sockets mounts... But these for P4 LGA 775 are gone and they are not so easy to replace and also they are not exchangable for the "AMD" ones, as they are smaller and for a good reason...

So out of curiosity I asking, if anyone have these, perhaps as leftover after using this great cooler or not. I live in EU, but could provide a US address, if anyone will be so kind to sell or donate them to me

Thermalright is not making P4 coolers anymore - their support told me this:

The SI-128 SE is EOL since 4 or 5 years ;-) After SI-128 we had the AXP-140, and the newest version are the Thermalrigth AXP-100 and the AXP-200.

The problem is, we did not have anymore accessories for that cooler, because it is a very very old cooler and the newst cooler did not support Pentium 4 motherboards. They all have other mounting kits wich are incompatible to the SI 128 SE.

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...and they will look for them, but the chance is minimal, so... who can wonder, after the years, right?

Well, I can only hope for a AMD user of this heatsink, that have no use for LGA 775 female screws. They are not simple female screws, they serve more purposes and tough I can ghetto mod the heatsink on the mobo, it will not be any good...

Another way could be, as one OCAU user observed, this:

The mount of that SI-128, looks exactly the same as the Thermalright IFX-14.

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http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/article/673/#axzz2dXpqsTDf


http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/article/673/Thermalright-IFX-14-CPU-Cooler-Review/2#axzz2dXpqsTDf

...but... there is one problem still, and that is the bottom cooling:



Thermalright SI-128 SE does not have it, so it is a good question, if the backplate and then the bottom screws are of same height! The space to fit two heatpipes in mine are very very limited, I would say 3mm?
I do believe that the Thermalright IFX-14 do have more space there, and hence the distance on the spacings on the famale screw might be different. But for the small ones it is worth a try, true.

Clearly better that trying to mod the heatsink with something... This could be a worth the shoot, IMHO!

...but who have a Thermalright IFX-14 with spare female screws, hmmm...

For this too old cooler is hard to get help - but one helping user Datsun 1600 from OC AU forum created these much need nuts already:



And send me these... together with a bonus!

So, that does look the backplate with Datsun 1600 nuts:



...and this is what get me confused:



I was under the impression that this nut dilate should be directly holding to the mainboard PCB, but there is a free place...

That resulted in some movement of the backplate, witch I fixed by adding about 0,8mm teflon pads bellow these metal "bridges":


And that allow me this nice cooling (a bit oversized compared to the mobo,lol) - but now I have active NB cooling as well:



So the NB should be pretty happy with their cooling


...and, of course, a big thanks must go to Dastun 1600 for this nice CPU upgrade:


Almost 2x faster CPU, hooray! Quiet and with great low temps! Perfect!

Thanks, sure thing. It was a bummer to use standard Intel box cooler, when having Thermalright SI-128 SE and nice Noiseblocker fan ready for it... Now the CPU is quite cool and the noise is minimal. AND the NB is cooled as well!

Just to gather some replacement cap for the AGP slot and we see, if I can or cannot manage the machine working stable!