At 10:30 PM 4/28/2005 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
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Before spending a whole lot of money, see if you can't get some thermal grease, from Thermaloy or someone like them. Take off the heatsink, coat it with a LIGHT layer of thermal grease, and reinstall it on the CPU. Make sure ir fits down tight to the CPU, and is not cockeyed. Try the system again.
Bzzzt!!
Sorry, but right after magnets, grease or oil of any kind is the absolute last thing you want to be putting inside your computer -- interiors of fans excepted. There is proper heatsink material on the market for uses like this.
/snip/ The thermal grease, from Thermaloy, is _specifically_ made for this application. Practically every heatsink in any power supply or audio amplifier, or professionally assembled computer, will have this kind of material as a heat-conductor between the heat-producing element and its heat sink. Perhaps this is what you meant by "a proper heatsink material on the market for uses like this." Other vendors than Thermaloy may make a similar product, but that's the stuff I have used thru almost 40 years of engineering. Thermaloy is apparently now known as Aavid. Wakefield Engineering also makes a thermal compound. The Aavid/Thermaloy stuff comes in a 2 oz. squeeze tube for $2.00, and should be available in any good electronics shop. The Wakefield compound is equivalent and perfectly acceptable. Even Radio-Shack should have something compatible. Just ask for a thermal compound for heat-sinks. It's white, in all the variations I've seen, and it's a bit messy to use. --doug -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.0 - Release Date: 4/29/2005