MISCELLANEOUS PICTURES OF MY 9700 PRO

The large heatsink on the left is Pentium heatsink thermal taped to the voltage regulator heat spreader.  The memory heatsinks on the rear memory were bought from Radio Shack years ago and are thermal taped.  My unscientific experience with memory heatsinks is that although they do help disperse heat from the memory they do not assist in increasing overclockability.

Another Pentium heatsink is attached to the PCB opposite the core. The heatsink is thermal epoxied onto a solid aluminum spacer that perfectly fits the pcb area opposite the core.  This spacer is thermal taped to the PCB. This proved extremely useful as my stock fan died.  When removing it for this modification I nearly burned my finger it was so hot.  Even before the stock heatsink was dying it became quite warm.  With the new heatsink installed it is slighly warm.  It doesn't really need to be installed but it doesn't hurt. It doesn't improve overclockability with the new hs/fan yet it did with the stock hs/fan slightly.  I do not run the fans on either of these Pentium heatsinks.  I ran them once for experimentation purposes.

In conclusion, I could definitely remove the hs/fan on the rear PCB without any impact.  I have not tested removing the voltage regulator to determine if it still has any impact.  It is clear though that the new hs/fan does prevents heat from the core spreading throughout the PCB.