[ale] OT: thermal paste

[Jeff Hubbs]

On 7/14/16 12:17 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> If the heatsink is not quite tightly held to the CPU, try adding some 
> washers above the heatsink and below the attachment screw springs to 
> tighten the springs. Or remove the springs, stretch them and reinstall 
> them.
>
> I've been a steady user of "Artic Silver" for a decade. Now there's a 
> diamond version that uses diamond dust. Diamond is completely 
> transparent to infrared wavelengths so it is a nearly perfect heat 
> conductor.
Except pastes transfer heat mostly through conduction, not radiation. 
That being said, it turns out that diamond is an insanely good heat 
conductor at about 1000 W/mK, more than twice as good as copper or 
silver. As to whether you wind up with enough dust touching other dust 
within the paste to make a difference once clamped down, I couldn't say.
>
> I guess you could use the old sticky pads from 10-15 years ago if you 
> can find them.
And for goodness' sake, please take the protective tape off the sides of 
the pads before you use them!! Years ago I was trying to put Win2K on a 
box that came from a mom-n'-pop vendor and the install kept dying in 
about the same place every time - /about/ the same place, not /the /same 
place. And so I started disassembling and sure enough, a layer of tape 
between pad and CPU.
>
> On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 11:33 -0400, Boris Borisov wrote:
>>
>> I have couple cheap ATI HD5450 video card with loose heatsinks. What 
>> thermal paste will be good. Should have some sticky properties also. 
>> Heatsink is hold on place with two spring loaded knobs or whatever 
>> name is. Not that secure.
>>
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