[ale] k7s5a motherboard

[Jeff Hubbs]

More than once, I've removed the tape and used Arctic Silver thermal
grease in its place.  I feel that the tape sometimes isn't getting
squeezed down enough and making for too much of a gap.  You can also
have a bad problem if there's even just a tiny bit of debris caught in
between.

- Jeff

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 16:00, Geoffrey wrote:
> Irv Mullins wrote:
> > On Monday 21 October 2002 01:01 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> >>Just out of curiosity, my expectation is that if the cpu is running 45C
> >>(~112F), that the heat sink would be pretty warm to the touch, but that
> >>does not appear to be the case.  Maybe not, since 112F isn't but a few
> >>degrees above body temperature.  Maybe I've got my upper limit wrong??
> >>Input??
> > 
> > 
> > Could it be that there is not good thermal bonding between the chip and 
> > the heatsink? 
> 
> Possibly.  This processor came with a heatsink and fan.  The processor 
> is different then any I've seen in a while.  The sink only touches an 
> area about 1 cm square on top of the actual chip.  The chip has four 
> little rubber feet at the corners that the sink rests on.  There was 
> thermal substance on the sink which is exposed when you remove some tape 
> backing.  I guess I could pick up some new thermal goo and reset the sink.
> 
> > 
> > Irv
> > 
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