I've installed some new hardware on my computer today, and maybe it was wear and tear, or just the heat being thrown out by pure GPU power, but the heatsync on my Soundblaster XFI Xtreme fell off. Any idea what kind of glue or heat transfer paste I need to stick it back on the chip?
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Neil
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You probably need this: http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silv ... hesive.htm
(every big computerstore has some I think).
PS: when I upload a 3D video I can only put it in the anaglyph section.
(every big computerstore has some I think).
PS: when I upload a 3D video I can only put it in the anaglyph section.
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Yhea I found that, too, but then I read this:
So what does it mean? Can it damage the CPU when used wrong? Or does it mean you don't get your Heatsink off, when using itArctic Silver Thermal Adhesive IS NOT intended to be used between a CPU and the CPU heatsink.
On a CPU, only use. Arctic Silver Thermal Compound
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You can't it off. With CPU's there's no need for glue, only thermal paste.
Thermal paste with glue is when permanent placement is intented like GPU RAM heat sinks or X-Fi. I've never had to clean my X-Fi, but I've disassempled the CPU cooler severel times to clean it. Those coolers is like dust magnets
PS: I hope You fix the video upload placement error.
Thermal paste with glue is when permanent placement is intented like GPU RAM heat sinks or X-Fi. I've never had to clean my X-Fi, but I've disassempled the CPU cooler severel times to clean it. Those coolers is like dust magnets
PS: I hope You fix the video upload placement error.
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Re: Heat Blasted Soundblaster!
Hope you didn't find anything interesting when it fell off.
A long, long, long time ago someone I know [but you don't Neil] bought a system at a local shop. It was the days of 386 CPUs. He bought a system and everything worked fine. One day the system went unstable. He opened the case and sure enough, the heat sink on the CPU fell off - exposing the CPU. On closer look the reason why the heat sink fell off was because that store over clocked the CPU selling a slower processor as a faster one [and hacking a few things to show the fake CPU].
A long, long, long time ago someone I know [but you don't Neil] bought a system at a local shop. It was the days of 386 CPUs. He bought a system and everything worked fine. One day the system went unstable. He opened the case and sure enough, the heat sink on the CPU fell off - exposing the CPU. On closer look the reason why the heat sink fell off was because that store over clocked the CPU selling a slower processor as a faster one [and hacking a few things to show the fake CPU].
