On Monday 08 Sep 2003 4:25 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Sunday September 7 2003 11:09 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 6:13 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > o Any decent heatsink and fan will do, but use thermal grease, > > > not a thermal pad. Provide plenty of air movement (ie, case > > > cooling). > > > > Often the thermal pad is already attached when you buy the > > components. Is there a way of cleaning this off so that you can > > use grease? I've never dared try it. > > > > Anne > > Use a pancake flipper, specially the ones for coated pans. Be > careful not to gouge the heatsink base if it's copper (should be). > Clean off the residue with some rubbin alcohol, then apply a thin > layer of thermal grease to the cpu's die. The grease is only meant > to fill in the lows spots, the HS should sit firmly and squarely in > direct contact with the cpu. Anything but a thin layer (about the > thickness of a sheet of paper) will be sqeezed out anyhow. > > Most decent HS's now ship with grease, not pads. There's two > big problems with pads. They're not as heat transfer efficent as > grease, and they deteriorate fairly quickly. Often in just a few > months. The hotter the processor runs, the quicker the pads fail.
Duly noted - thanks Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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