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RMC
Hello All
Henkel Loctite have released a new heatsink compound which comes in the form
of a bar of material, deployed rather like a lip-stick.
You rub it on the heatsink/component interface and it applies an appropriate
layer of solid material. under high clamping pressures, the solid undergoes
a change to a liquid at 60 deg C (approx. 150 deg F) and is forced into all
the tiny gaps (present due to imperfections, machining tolerances etc.).
The thermal conductivity is 20% lower than the usual thermal grease - it
says it's 0.03 degC/W at 20psi clamping pressure, dropping to 0.02 degC/W at
100psi - and gives 100% surface wetting with easy application, it says.
My Prescott, o/c from 3 to 3.3 GHz, is running at stock voltages with the
stock Intel heastink. CPU temps reported by MBM5 (Abit AI7) are 60-62 deg C.
I plan to re-mount the heatsink having applied some of this thermstrate, and
I'll let you know if I see a drop in temperature. The current heatsink
compound is the usual white alumina-loaded stuff.
Here's some info on thermstrate:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D4F321069
Does anybody know what the thermal conductivity is that's quoted for the
silver-loaded materials?
Cheers
RMC, England
Henkel Loctite have released a new heatsink compound which comes in the form
of a bar of material, deployed rather like a lip-stick.
You rub it on the heatsink/component interface and it applies an appropriate
layer of solid material. under high clamping pressures, the solid undergoes
a change to a liquid at 60 deg C (approx. 150 deg F) and is forced into all
the tiny gaps (present due to imperfections, machining tolerances etc.).
The thermal conductivity is 20% lower than the usual thermal grease - it
says it's 0.03 degC/W at 20psi clamping pressure, dropping to 0.02 degC/W at
100psi - and gives 100% surface wetting with easy application, it says.
My Prescott, o/c from 3 to 3.3 GHz, is running at stock voltages with the
stock Intel heastink. CPU temps reported by MBM5 (Abit AI7) are 60-62 deg C.
I plan to re-mount the heatsink having applied some of this thermstrate, and
I'll let you know if I see a drop in temperature. The current heatsink
compound is the usual white alumina-loaded stuff.
Here's some info on thermstrate:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D4F321069
Does anybody know what the thermal conductivity is that's quoted for the
silver-loaded materials?
Cheers
RMC, England