Heatsink/fan for 68040

[NovaCoder]

That's the design of the thing.  Should have a silver cover on it but won't fit with my new fan, most owners remove it.  Probably unnecessary, IMHO.  Ask GVP.  :p

Yep that's what I was thinking, probably just ditch it to improve air-flow (and looks!)

[orange]

its probably used to reduce RF interference.
since metal cage holding floppy drives is near, I had an idea to somehow use that massive A2000 case as passive cooler.

for a while I did try using ordinary passive heatsink on that '040 without fan, but system froze from time to time, very bad idea.

[gertsy]

Finally getting back to this, thanks again for the link, fan fits great (after a little filing) and oh so much quieter than stock!  Now go just get back to all my other projects (like getting PFS installed, getting my clock working right, getting my Thylacine working, etc., etc.).  Too much of this:  :drink: and not enough time!  

Looks exactly like mine. Had do the filing of the floppy tray base and leave the lid off too. I'm running mine at 5v, much quieter and no crashes I can attribute to it yet. Need to look at a power supply fan option now. Way too loud.

[som99]

Looks exactly like mine. Had do the filing of the floppy tray base and leave the lid off too. I'm running mine at 5v, much quieter and no crashes I can attribute to it yet. Need to look at a power supply fan option now. Way too loud.

is it a 80mm or 92mm fan in the PSU?
If 80mm and 19.46 cfm is enough ill say a Fractal Design Silent Series R2 series 14dB fan.
If you need to move more air ill say the Noctua NF-R8 hands down, 17dB and 31,2 cfm airflow and it's a Winner in the 80mm class for me.

if 92mm fans same applies either Noctua NF-B9 or Fractal Design 92mm Silent Series R2.


I would pick a non PWM fan from Noctuna for a PSU to be safe, they are of great quality and last forever and they are preforming good while keeping quiet also their color scheme somewhat fits old computers

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I replaced the PSU fan in my A2000 with this a few months back:
 
http://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-35-209-007
 
Fan itself was a drop-in replacement, but I had to swap the black and red wires on its power connector, because they were reversed on my A2000 (on the header where the fan draws power from the PSU). Drilled a small hole in the back of the case to mount the three-way speed switch. Quiet and I like the blue lights, or just go with what @som99 says - those fans look awesome, wish I'd seen his posts about them before I started tinkering with mine!