Ok so I have some general questions on some stuff I have been putting off on my GCP build.
1. How much heat paste do I need to put between the heat sink and the ICs? The gc seemed to have a lot on when I first took it apart.
2. How much air flow is needed over the original gamecube heat sink? I have two of these MC25100V2 Mini Fans from digikey. I am a little concerned because I cannot feel the air flow in the wind tunle thing I made. I was told it will most likely be fine since there is at least some air flow over the sink, but I don't know for sure.
3. Will this cause any problems if I shave off this much of the top of the heat sink? The ends of the ribs will no longer be as "pointy" and the heat will not be dispersed as well?
4. I need to trim the section I marked below in the pic and was wondering if I will still need to sand down the edges so that the 4 layers don't bridge? Is there any traces under the that specific spot marked or is it solid copper (each layer between GND)?
sorry for the tinypic images, imgur won't upload for me for some reason right now.
1. How much heat paste do I need to put between the heat sink and the ICs? The gc seemed to have a lot on when I first took it apart.
2. How much air flow is needed over the original gamecube heat sink? I have two of these MC25100V2 Mini Fans from digikey. I am a little concerned because I cannot feel the air flow in the wind tunle thing I made. I was told it will most likely be fine since there is at least some air flow over the sink, but I don't know for sure.
3. Will this cause any problems if I shave off this much of the top of the heat sink? The ends of the ribs will no longer be as "pointy" and the heat will not be dispersed as well?

4. I need to trim the section I marked below in the pic and was wondering if I will still need to sand down the edges so that the 4 layers don't bridge? Is there any traces under the that specific spot marked or is it solid copper (each layer between GND)?

sorry for the tinypic images, imgur won't upload for me for some reason right now.