Cooling an Intel NUC Haswell

[b0redom]

Hi All,
Many moons ago I bought a Haswell NUC (d54250wykh).

I stuffed it in a passive case and at the end of its useful life put it in a cupboard and forgot about it. I'm now building an arcade cabinet, and want to use it. Unfortunately I didn't keep the original heatsink and fan. Does anyone have any idea what I could use to cool it? Pics are below. I think the CPU is under the large black block (which made contact with the metal passive case to dissipate the heat).

TIA b0redom....

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[Rob_B]

The 4250u is 15w so I wonder if small fan pointing at that block would do the trick? (easily tested) The original heatsink doesn't look much bigger than the one you have on there now!

[b0redom]

Maybe. It's in a Akasa Neptune case which gets pretty warm under load, so perhaps not too. There's no great way to physically connect a fan to heatsink that I can see either. I mean worst case I could mount the whole passive case inside the cabinet, I was just hoping to minimise the amount of junk inside the cab.

[Rob_B]

You could use thermal epoxy to glue a small HSF to that black plate (assuming you don't mind it being glued forever) or point a 120mm at it and mount that to the cabinet internally?

[Percy1983]

Cable ties? if the intention is a cabinet do looks matter?

[AGTDenton]

Not sure if it's the way the light is reflecting, but on the top picture is there some corrosion going on towards the bottom right of the board, above the switch?

[b0redom]

Not sure if it's the way the light is reflecting, but on the top picture is there some corrosion going on towards the bottom right of the board, above the switch?

It's probably dirt/dust. It's over 10 years old.

[b0redom]

Looks like it gets up to over 100c without active cooling. TBH I might just buy something a smidge more modern. Annoying as I chucked out an unused AMD HSF a few months back that I could have used.