Arctic Silver question

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darkeen

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I am planing on putting some heatsinks inside my linksys router and was wondering if the arctic silver alone would hold the sinks on the chips. I know the stuff has a decent hold while cool but I'm not sure about it when heated.
 
I wouldn't trust the arctic silver alone to hold the sinks personally.
Do the old modder's trick - super glue gel on two opposite corners of each chip.
With thermal paste on the rest of the surface.
 
Super Glue .... Krazy glue, whatever. Just try to get the gel.
Dries faster then the liquid so there is less chance of the glue running onto unwanted areas.

Here is what I have been using
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~ Procedure ~

1] - Cover two opposite corners of the sink surface with masking tape.

2] - Apply favorite premium thermal paste to rest of sink surface

3] - Peel off tape pieces

4] - Place small dab of gel glue to now bare corners

5] - Hold firmly in place for two minutes until gel dries

I have used the above method with great success. All the way up to beefy northbridge sinks.

In most cases you can easily snap off the sink later on if need be. Not so easy if you go with thermal
adhesive instead.
 
or you can get thermal adhesive...basically arctic silver in sticky form hehe
 
Antheus said:
or you can get thermal adhesive...basically arctic silver in sticky form hehe
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1] - thermal adhesive is a permanent bond - cannot be removed. Fine. But if you want
the choice of removing the sinks later the "glue/corner" method might be advisable.

2] - the glue allows you to use take advantage of the full thermal properties of the AS5 on all
but a fraction of the surface.

3] - Krazy/Super glue is easy to pick up at the local store & is quite cheap. Arctic Silver adhesive
usually requires a wait for shipping, and is more expensive.
 
I hear mixing thermal epoxy with AS5 (50/50) makes a less permanent bond.

Super glue would work fine though if you want to use that.
 
Personally, I think AS5 by itself could hold the heatsink. A couple of months ago I pulled the CPU right out of the socket when I was trying to take the waterblock off my CPU. Bent a couple of pins on the CPU (but fixed them with a mechanical pencil). The WB and AS5 had been on the CPU a little over a year, and I had spread the AS5 over the whole IHS (rather than the recommened "grain of rice" method).

So as you can see there is some real bonding power to AS5. Give it a shot, I bet it works!
 
im plannin to do the same thing to my router :p

i was ognna go the way of superglue n AS5 so i think thatll be cool
 
willie92 said:
Personally, I think AS5 by itself could hold the heatsink.
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I have had that happen to me too, but I would never attach a heatsink to something with just AS5. Once it is heated up the heatsink could slide around.
 
willie92 said:
Personally, I think AS5 by itself could hold the heatsink. A couple of months ago I pulled the CPU right out of the socket when I was trying to take the waterblock off my CPU. Bent a couple of pins on the CPU (but fixed them with a mechanical pencil). The WB and AS5 had been on the CPU a little over a year, and I had spread the AS5 over the whole IHS (rather than the recommened "grain of rice" method).

So as you can see there is some real bonding power to AS5. Give it a shot, I bet it works!
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High clamping pressure + large surface area = excessive suction

Question is, how much surface area do the chips the OP want so cool have compared to a CPU heatspreader.
Not to mention you will not have the same clamping pressure.
 
what ever happen to frag tape, i loved that stuff for ram chips. i have less then 1 square inch of it left
 
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