Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:02:26 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD hardware Users <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Heat sinks and coolers: grease or pad? Message-ID: <199801290532.QAA01436@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 15:40:37 %2B1030." <19980129154037.61654@lemis.com>
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> I recently bought an AMD K6/233, and I'm still looking for a cooler > which will keep it cool enough. Today I got a thing double the size > of the last (well-dimensioned) one, and mounted it. It look bovine > rc564 3 minutes to overheat the processor. Yay. Three cheers for AMD. 8( > I'm wondering what to do next. Both this cooler (which claims a > thermal resistance of 0.8°C/W) and the previous one have a pad stuck > on to the processor side, presumably in order to facilitate heat > transfer. What's the best way to use this? Should I use thermal > grease anyway? Should I use it instead? Any other bright ideas? How about a Peltier effect cooler? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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