RE: Thermal adhesives

Well I think I can actually help with this one. My brother just built an
Athlon 1333MHz computer, and could not get the processor to run cool enough.
It would sit at 144F and not get cooler. He even cut a hole in the side of
his case and mounted a fan directly over the processor that moves 43CFM of
air, and it would still not run cooler.

He finally tried the Arctic Silver compound, and he is now running at
98-110F. This was a huge difference that has convinced me to order a couple
tubes for pinball bridge rectifiers and of course heat sinks on Asteroids
and Space Fury.(ob vec)

Hope that info helped,

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Mahan [mailto:kmahan@xmission.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 10:24 AM
To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
Subject: VECTOR: Thermal adhesives

I remember we were discussing this a while ago -- don't remember which of
the lists (probably raster since pacman and galaxian have those wonderful
little heatsinks that are falling off).. But everybody's on the same lists
so it must be vector related.

Anyway a friend sent me this link:

        http://nerdsbyte.safeshopper.com/26/cat26.htm?394

As anybody used any of that stuff? Like the thermal tape or the Arctic
Adhesive? Any suggestions? (or, more to the point, anything to stay away
from?)

Thanks!

Kurt
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