Alright so i have been seeing the question "how do i install the iceberq 4 pro" a lot. and lately i have seen a ton of slimboxes so i thought i should just make a tut. lets start.
attention: if you mess up your box doing this mod i do not take any credit for it is your box and your the one installing it.
Step 1:
what i think is the safest and smartest thing to do is make sure your xbox turns on. the reason i say that is because if you dont check and do the mod and the mod works but you get an error code you will instantly think it is the iceberq 4 pros and you will never find the real problem.
Step 2:Getting the stock heatsinks and bracket off
take your mobo out and face it on top.
next, you see that black clip lift it up. you should then feel the heatsink wiggle.
after that take a flathead screwdriver and place it in between the translucent yellow clip and the black bracket.
once its in there push the end of the screw driver away from you and pull up. wiggle the translucent yellow clip around and the heatsink should come off. repeat that same process with the GPU heatsink except the heatsink will really be on there. at this point you need to break out the pliers.
i hope your not planning on selling this heatsink because you need to take the plier and clamp it on one of the heatsink prongs and pull up. with a little force it should come off. keyword here being little.
Step 3: Getting the bracket off
After you have finished step 2 flip over the board and find 5 black plastic clamps that hold the bracket on.
the next few steps can really mess up your board up if your not cautios. so what i recommend is that you put tape around all of the black plastic clamps so that nothing could lift a trace etc.
after you have all the tape on bring out the pliers again and yank off the top of the black plastic clamp, not the full thing.
after you do that flip the board over and look at the other part of the black plastic clamp and take your pliers and pull up on it.
repeat that same process for the other 4.
after you have all of black plastic clamps out take your pliers and pull off the black bracket.
to be continued...
Step 4: Cleaning the CPU and GPU and applying the thermal adhesive
After you have completed step 3 you need to clean the CPU and GPU for the next step. to do this i bought a cleaning product designed for just that. Its called Arctic Clean, a link can be found
here.
follow the steps on the bottle and you should have an outcome like this.
for the next step you are going to need some Arctic Silver 5(thermal adhesive), a link can be found
here.
take the lid off and put just enough thermal adhesive on to both the GPU and CPU to cover the whole thing evenly(for the CPU put the thermal adhesive only on the blue part of the CPU). then take your finger and smooth it out evenly. make sure it is even, it will perform better if it is. it should look like this now.
Step 5: Attaching the iceberq 4 pros
take one of your iceberq 4 pros and place it on the CPU so it is at a 45 degrees angle leaning to the left. then take tape and put a piece underneith both of the holes that the heatsink lines up with. Then take hotglue and put it in the hole and while the hotglue is still hot place a screw in there(the screw is for extra strength, you can put the screw in hotglue in any order you want but this is how i did it). do that for the other CPU heatsink hole. should look like this.
next for the GPU heatink place at a 45 degrees angle leaing to the left(should look like a "V"). place the screws in the hotglue or just hotglue. either way your going to have to dremel out the screw holes. Let the hot glue cool and they should be ok.
Step 6: Final product
For this step you will need to turn off the lights and stare in awe at your beautiful heatsink install.
Happy Modding,
Potato10
Tut: How To Install The Iceberq 4 Pro, very detailed, 56kers beware
Apr 30 2007, 01:33 AM
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