Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 19:12:56 -0600 (CST) From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: CPU heatsinks Message-ID: <XFMail.961114192429.dkelly@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961114073812.24584B-100000@carrier.eng.umd.edu>
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On 13:40:05 Chuck Robey wrote: > >Never seen the gasket thing. The Pentium-Pro chip is considerably larger >than the Pentium ... do you happen to have any reference to where I might >pick up this gasket? I don't like smearing messy glue either. Don't know right off the top of my head but I'd start with DigiKey (most likely http://www.digikey.com/) and Mouser (also guessing http://www.mouser.com/). Not sure that you could find the info on web pages, but at least you'd get their 800-number. If that failed I'd start bugging my local electronics distributors and watching EE Times and EDN more closely. I smeared the silicon grease on my CPU's. It can be messy but I don't do that many CPU's and "one size fits all" with the grease. One thing about the gasket that might rule it out for a CPU: when you *bolt* a transistor to a heat sink you have a fair bit of pressure to deform a gasket to the surfaces. You don't have that pressure between a big expensive delicate chip and heatsink. I once bought a 486 fan and heatsink that had a gasket, but who knows if anybody'd ever bothered to determine if that gasket was an insulator or conductor? You know what kind of junk is sold in the PC market... -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com (wk), dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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