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In my struggle to get my Thermaltake CPU heatsink/fan unit carefully
placed atop my Athlon XP2800+, while wrestling with those damned clips,
I had to take the heatsink/fan off, disassemble the fan from the
heatsink, re-orient the clip, reassemble the whole schlematzl, and then
I discovered that I had displaced a tiny area of the thermal-transfer
square pad attached to the bottom of the copper core of the heatsink
where it mates to the CPU. It was a VERY small area, but in my
anal-retentive way, I though belt-and-braces overkill would be the best
insurance, so I filled in the area with a small dollop of typical
RatShack silicone/aluminoid thermal-transfer paste.
I haven't fired it up, but now I'm thinking that I read somewhere of
someone else buggering it up the same way, and they were admonished to
thoroughly clean ALL the original thermal transfer naterial square
applied to the mating area of the heatsink, cleaning the whole thing
with alcohol, then apply a high-quality thermal transfer paste, the
reasoning being that the material supplied in the neat little square
patch from Thermaltake is not necessarily the same, nor necessarily
compatible with, the usual old squeeze-tube silicone-based thermal paste
known and loved by generations of electronics builders.
Because I'm one of those Murphy's Law True Believers, I'd like to hear
some opinions on this subject. If I can fry this processor in
nanoseconds without proper heat transfer, as has been stated in this
forum and others, I'd MUCH rather not.
thanks again!
Bart Brown
In my struggle to get my Thermaltake CPU heatsink/fan unit carefully
placed atop my Athlon XP2800+, while wrestling with those damned clips,
I had to take the heatsink/fan off, disassemble the fan from the
heatsink, re-orient the clip, reassemble the whole schlematzl, and then
I discovered that I had displaced a tiny area of the thermal-transfer
square pad attached to the bottom of the copper core of the heatsink
where it mates to the CPU. It was a VERY small area, but in my
anal-retentive way, I though belt-and-braces overkill would be the best
insurance, so I filled in the area with a small dollop of typical
RatShack silicone/aluminoid thermal-transfer paste.
I haven't fired it up, but now I'm thinking that I read somewhere of
someone else buggering it up the same way, and they were admonished to
thoroughly clean ALL the original thermal transfer naterial square
applied to the mating area of the heatsink, cleaning the whole thing
with alcohol, then apply a high-quality thermal transfer paste, the
reasoning being that the material supplied in the neat little square
patch from Thermaltake is not necessarily the same, nor necessarily
compatible with, the usual old squeeze-tube silicone-based thermal paste
known and loved by generations of electronics builders.
Because I'm one of those Murphy's Law True Believers, I'd like to hear
some opinions on this subject. If I can fry this processor in
nanoseconds without proper heat transfer, as has been stated in this
forum and others, I'd MUCH rather not.
thanks again!
Bart Brown
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