[ale] Ubuntu 15.10

[Preston Boyington]

Well done sir. I'm definitely archiving this.

Preston


On November 12, 2015 10:06:07 PM Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> The secret methods to use thermal paste as told from someone who has
> used several pounds over the years in a laboratory setting on various
> bits of equipment valued over $1 million:
>
> 0: Wear gloves for this process because skin oil is your enemy.
>
> 1: Get high quality silver colloid paste[A].  It's not too expensive but
> it has high thermal conductivity.  For the lab I used to get it from
> Williams Advanced Materials which is now owned by Materion.  The new
> compound name is Thermotech TE Vaccum Paste.  It's meant to keep
> sputtering targets cool that routinely see over 2kW of energy pumped
> into them resulting in several hundred watts of heat all in a vacuum
> chamber which means no convection (it all goes through a water cooled
> heatsink).
>
> 2: Get a new, stiff putty knife from the hardware store.  It needs to be
> very stiff, not one that can flex easily.
>
> 3: Clean all surfaces very well, including the putty knife, with lint
> free cloth and a triad of acetone, isopropanol, and ethanol or, in a
> pinch, just use high purity isopropanol (93% or better).
>
> 4: Apply a small dab of the paste (about the size of an apple seed) to
> either the chip or the heatsink with the corner of the putty knife.  You
> don't need much and you certainly don't want to "butter" the heatsink.
>
> 5: Scrape the putty knife flat across the surface that has the paste.
> You will end up removing a fair amount of paste in the process and what
> is left will be a very thin sheen.  This is all you need, resist the
> urge to put more.
>
> 6:  Carefully align the two parts and press them together lightly
> without twisting or rocking.  Then clamp in place.
>
> After that you will have an air-free, ultra flat surface between the two
> parts and maximum thermal conduction.  However, this only works with
> really good paste.  The cheap stuff from a computer store doesn't work
> as well nor does it stay plastic.  The white paste is even worse.  It's
> good for large power transistors but not for this type of application.
>
>
> A:  An alternative to silver colloid paste is indium foil.  You can buy
> very thin sheets of foil (about the gauge of household aluminum foil)
> from several vendors (ESPI Metals is one I usually use).  Indium is a
> very soft metal, it flows when compressed.  You would cut a square to
> fit the chip package, clean everything very well with lint-free cloth
> and isopropanol and then tightly clamp the heat sink to the chip with
> the foil in between.
>
> On 2015-11-12 13:26, Wolf Halton wrote:
>> Good point.
>> It appears to be a common complaint that there is too much, or not enough
>> thermal paste.  That is cheaper than a fan, I reckon.  I may even have a
>> bit of it about the lab.
>>
>> Wolf Halton
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>>
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Or thermal paste is not dried out ...
>>> On Nov 10, 2015 10:12 PM, "Wolf Halton" <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just discovered that my video card is running at about 130 degrees
>>>> Celsius, which is about 30% hotter than max suggested by nvidia. I got it
>>>> used, from a tech recycler, so its history may include inadvertent rough
>>>> handling that might be a contributing factor in this case. Guess I ought to
>>>> check if its cooling fan is running at all.
>>>>
>>>> Wolf Halton
>>>> Atlanta Cloud Technology
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> On Nov 8, 2015, at 5:49 PM, Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I certainly understand a lack of interest in Beta and NonLTS. I am
>>>> addicted to the bleeding edge.  I have Fedora 23 beta on a VM from a couple
>>>> of months ago. I installed it to see the 4.x kernel in action. Works pretty
>>>> well. Ubuntu 15.10 worked fine in a VM.
>>>>
>>>> Wolf Halton
>>>> Atlanta Cloud Technology
>>>> Cybersecurity & Disaster Recovery Solutions
>>>> Mobile/Text 678-687-6104
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> On Nov 8, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I agree.  If I just "have to" have something cutting edge, I'll get a
>>>> copy of Fedora.  That hasn't happened in some years now.
>>>>
>>>> On 11/08/2015 09:19 AM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 15.04 support ends in 2 months.
>>>>
>>>> 15.10 support ends in June.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Non-LTS releases aren't worth my time.
>
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