Thermal PAD??

[jinsonxu]

Well, see.
I've a TBird 850Mhz running at 1.7V and an FOP38. Maybe it was due to the weather but yesterday, the temp never rose past 46 degrees even after RC5, Red Alert2....

But this morning, i decided that i'd rather repencil. So i took off the heatsink and of course, the thermal pad's all molten and gooey.

Repencilled, success, refixed the heatsink as it was before and booted up at 1Ghz.
Ran through a few 3DMark Demos to test and it completed successfully.

But i loaded up Via Monitor and was horrified to see the temperature at 62 degrees C.
So i changed it back to 850Mhz @ 1.65V

But here i am, typing adn running nothing else but RC5 and the temperature's at 53 degrees.


So, anyone know for sure whether taking the HSF off once the thermal pad has set REQUIRES that i clean off the Thermal pad goo and reapply thermal greese?

If it's necessary, anyone know what kind of greese is best? I don't have any at the moment and am not particularly willing to rush to SLS to get some.

 

[Usul]

I usually take pieces of pad from the border ans stick tem in the middle, where the core lives a hole.
Then the tepm melts it down, and it works fine.
Try....

 

[rmn]

Usul, Thought of doing that myself good suggestion. I'm always taking the HS off and mucking around. Can't seem to leave well enough alone. Oh well...
Cheers
Joe

 

[Viperoni]

Thermal pads are evil.
a fellow team members should know better
Get yourself some AS, and live the good life

that stupid thermal stuff is ultra hard to get off.
I took mine off before applying it to the CPU, and it took a good 20 minutes.

I also hate the FOP38 clip, wayyyyy too tight.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Thermal pads, notably those on most Socket A heatsinks are not bad.

They are not typical Thermal pads. They are a)heat-fused to the cpu, and b)melt to fill microgaps between heatsink/cpu.

They are hard to remove, but they are intended for users who install once and let it be. They definately outperform silicon greases, and dont' have the nasty tendancy to dry up when used on t-bird/durons.


P.S. Radio Shack grease is EVIL!


Mike

 

[Rudee]

I don't find them hard to remove at all. In fact, I can remove them completely without any trace in only a couple of minutes using fingers and paper towel saturated in Vegetable Oil. I't rather simple.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Rather simple to you, or any experienced computer user, but to the beginner, who doesn't know to use vegetable oil, or butane, or goo-gone, it can be difficult.


Mike