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post #1 of 7
6/8/10 at 1:41pm
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I opened er up, and put a aluminmum heatsink on the biggest chip I could find on the circuit board, and then modified the case, so i could bolt on a 50mm ocz blue led case fan. It runs waaaaay cooler, faster, and looks pretty damn cool.


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post #2 of 7
6/12/10 at 2:05pm
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I opened er up, and put a aluminmum heatsink on the biggest chip I could find on the circuit board, and then modified the case, so i could bolt on a 50mm ocz blue led case fan. It runs waaaaay cooler, faster, and looks pretty damn cool.
How does your router run faster?
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6/12/10 at 2:11pm
He could be pushing the clock speed in which case he would need this. Buffalo's are very capable of running custom firmware. Nice one OP.
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6/12/10 at 7:08pm
haha, awesome! +1 rep
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6/18/10 at 9:23pm
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its not overheating anymore, so its running faster. It's not overclocked...
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6/18/10 at 9:24pm
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im running custom firmware in my cable modem which i also modded with heatsink and fan, because its uncapped, i get around 50mbit download speeds on a comcast cable connection.
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9/19/12 at 10:39pm
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Just wanted to update this thread, because I still have this router, and i flashed it with dd-wrt, and its STILL working like the day i bought it. Adding the heatsink/fan to it definetly increased the life of the router. I highly recommend doing this. I've had 2 D-links and 1 Linksys routers go bad that weren't cooled, and I firmly believe its a cooling issue. Most of these home routers are only passively cooled and really need to be cooled properly
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