Meant to be Seen

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?

Regards,
Neil

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.

Yhea I found that, too, but then I read this:

Arctic 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

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 it

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.

Ok - I'll look into it - thanks! The video problem should be solved.

Regards,
Neil

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].