[ale] k7s5a motherboard

[Eichler, Paula J.]

Wow, don't understand this one.  Everything I read was scrape the white
square off the heatsink and use arctic silver for a good bond with the CPU.
Better heatsinks come with AS instead of the white patch.  I guess the
thinking is that the average Joe may not know what to do and ruin the CPU in
2.5 seconds by not using it, so they include it with CPUs ..pj

-----Original Message-----
From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 5:13 PM
To: hbbs at attbi.com
Cc: esoteric at 3times25.net; ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] k7s5a motherboard

I've read good reviews regarding Artic Silver, but the guy I spoke with at
tcwo.com was adamant that it shouldn't be used.  He said it has a much
higher conductivity than standard paste, among other things.

John

Jeff Hubbs said:
> 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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