It’s not every day you get to see one of these chipsets. Annoyingly one of the metal clips that the chipset heatsink is held on by came detached from my motherboard. A bit of superglue and a lot of swearing later and I managed to get the heatsink back on without resorting to thermal glue. The markings on the chipset read:
QG5000p
SL972
L607A642
Intel (m) (c) ‘05 (e1)
You can see where the metal clip came off in the upper right of the picture, it’s the two tiny holes labelled ‘HS10′. When are manufacturers going to improve mounting methods of heatsinks? Never, they’d rather deal with RMAs than spend a few minutes and a couple of extra pennies doing it the right way.
