[ale] Heatsinks

[Robert Hoffman]

Definitely get the thermal goop from Radio Shack. You may have to ask for it as "thermal grease", "cpu grease", "processor goop", etc. It took the sales guy a while to figure out what I was after when I bought it. It will come in a little-bitty white tube that looks like a 1" tube of toothpaste. It's much better than that generic white square that comes with most CPUs. 

The first thing I do when building a system is scrape that generic white square crap off the CPU and use Radio Shack's thermal grease. Well, not quite the first thing. First, I drool over all my new goodies. :-)

-Rob

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Michael Snow <msnow at bellsouth.net>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:49:24 -0400

>I recommend getting some Thermal Paste at Radio Shack and put a liberal 
>amount own.  It solved my heat problems.  I also installed a aux fan in the 
>case which blows at the cpu also;  proably a combination of both.. Good luck.
>
>Best regards -- Michael 
>
>On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Jay Finch wrote:
>> I just went through all of this myself when I was upgrading my PC... :~)
>> 
>> The tape you removed was probably "Thermal Tape" which is used to better 
>> conduct the heat transfer from the CPU to the Heatsink.
>> 
>> I would recommend going on-line and getting some "Thermal Paste" to apply 
>> to the space where the heatsink fits onto the CPU.
>> 
>> Do you have any type of heat monitoring?  Also -- What type of case do you 
>> have?  How's the airflow inside?
>> 
>> Here are some helpful links:
>> http://www.overclockers.com/articles38/
>> http://www.overclockers.com/tips21/
>> http://agrose.home.mindspring.com/coolfans.htm
>> http://www.coolingstore.com/Pages/thermal_tape_info.htm
>> http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/casecutting/
>> 
>> There are a lot of articles on case airflow, cooling tips, etc. out 
>> there...  I know it's helped me keep my case cool, my CPU cooler, and 
>> running everything fine. :~)
>> 
>> Cheers!
>> Jay
>> 
>> At 03:15 PM 8/13/00 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>> >Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>> >
>> > > I have a question pertaining to an Athlon heatsink but I expect that the
>> > > issue would apply to other sinilar heatsinks as well.
>> > >
>> > > The original one I had gotten from GIM Computer developed a bad fan (in
>> > > only 2-3 months!), so I went back for a replacement.  The original had a
>> > > thin square (~1" on a side) piece of a soft grayish metal attached to
>> > > the back which would have been in direct contact with the Athlon
>> > > module.  The new one had something different.  There was a piece of
>> > > transparent blue tape (which I presumed should be removed, which I did),
>> > > covering a white ~1"-wide piece of thin plastic with a noticeable
>> > > crosshatch pattern of about 2mm pitch in it.
>> > >
>> > > Even though I have redone my fans and am finally able to run my new
>> > > computer with the side covers on, I still get lockups and crashes when
>> > > running the SETI at home client.  The computer can run the client endlessly
>> > > when the covers are off and can sit idle endlessly with the covers off,
>> > > so I presume the CPU is running a bit too hot still.
>> > >
>> > > Does the thing with the white square on the new heatsink sound normal to
>> > > you, or should I get a more serious heatsink?  I've also wondered if I
>> > > should just try to remove the white square and set 2-3 laters of
>> > > tighly-pressed aluminim foil in between.  Opinions?
>> > >
>> > > - Jeff
>> > >
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>> >Oops, I mis-spoke - I meant to say that the computer can sit endlessly idling
>> >with the covers ON.  If I then run the SETI at home client, the display 
>> >either goes
>> >black or freezes, along with the mouse pointer.
>> >
>> >- Jeff
>> >
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