Most CPU fans I've seen come with a pad of conductive [something] which goes between the processor and the heatsink. I would think that something like this would be essential, given that the surfaces are probably not perfectly flat (on a nano scale).
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Frank Sergeant wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with this? In > the old days, voltage regulators and power transistors > and such hot-running ICs usually were not just attached > to their heatsinks bare, but were smeared with > heatsink/thermal compound first in order to provide better > heat transfer than a bare connection would provide. > > However, I have gathered that the typical CPU > heatsink is just put on bare. Is this just laziness > on the part of assemblers or is there some legitimate > reason to think the heatsink compound is not needed > with CPUs? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .