Question about AS Alumina Epoxy...

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The backside of my 9800pro gets quite hot, and I am looking for a way to attach a heatsink to it. I've heard AS Alumina epoxy is non conductive. What I am wondering is, is it conductive at all? There are very small chips on the back that would be covered in AS, and I'm worried that a very small amount of current could short out something. I dont want to risk killing a good overclocking card. Any suggestions are appreciated! :D
 
stick a small fan back there (no heatsink, just the fan) cools it off pretty good. i'll leave attachement up to you.
 
A fan as mentioned should do the trick. You might also attach a BGA heatsink right in the back behind the caps/whatever they are on the back of the core. Use thermal tape though, it'll be removable and it helps temps very slightly... plus... it just looks damn cool. Hercules cards can be found with these sort of sinks on them (if you want to see what i mean)
 
get a small northbridge heatsink, and a copper slug, that fits inside the SMD components around the rear of the card. use some AS5 in the center, ans dabs of superglue on the edges, thats extreme cooling for the rear of ur GPU....
 
i definetly wouldnt use AS5 on the back of a videocard... you wanna get some pretty thick thermaltape and put a northbridge heatsink there, or just a small 40-60mm fan.
 
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