Question How to know if cooling is enough?

[Emetsys]

Hello,
I'm in the cooling phase of my wii portable, but there is(to my knowledge) no built-in temp monitoring.
Should I buy a sensor for my multimeter? or is it enough if the wii doesn't turn off.
I already have a thermal camera but I don't know if it will be enough.

Thanks,

Emetsys

 

[Stitches]

Cooling a Wii is really easy. A 35mm metal cased fan sitting on the cpu blowing air through a 35x35x8mm heatsink on the gpu is enough. (with thermal pads of course)

 

[Emetsys]

Thanks for your answer, so I do not even need a heats ink for the cpu?

 

[Stitches]

Thanks for your answer, so I do not even need a heats ink for the cpu?

If you use the right kind of fan with a full aluminium enclosure, it can act as the CPU heatsink. Otherwise, the same heatsink dimensions as for the GPU with a plastic fan next to it is fine.

 

[Emetsys]

Thank you,
I don't think I understand well the idea of a metal case around a fan.
I came up with this,

I think it will be enough but what do you think?

 

[cheese]

As long as you have some sort of thermal paste or thermal compound on the CPU/GPU you should be good.