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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/14/16 12:17 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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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. <br>
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<div>I guess you could use the old sticky pads from 10-15 years
ago if you can find them.</div>
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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 - <i>about</i>
the same place, not <i>the </i>same place. And so I started
disassembling and sure enough, a layer of tape between pad and CPU.<br>
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<div>On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 11:33 -0400, Boris Borisov wrote:</div>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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