Re: K6 and Debian (and heatsinks)
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Frank Sergeant wrote:
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:
: Does anyone have any experience with this? In
: the old days, voltage regulators and power transistors
: and such hot-running ICs usually were not just attached
: to their heatsinks bare, but were smeared with
: heatsink/thermal compound first in order to provide better
: heat transfer than a bare connection would provide.
A 300W RF amp built without using thermal compound will fail in a hurry
(and smell bad, too :)
:
: However, I have gathered that the typical CPU
: heatsink is just put on bare. Is this just laziness
: on the part of assemblers or is there some legitimate
: reason to think the heatsink compound is not needed
: with CPUs?
Other than cost, no good reason whatsoever. Most techs I've been around
have no idea that thermal compound exists, but I don't consider
ignorance a "legitimate excuse" in this case.
Personally, I've got a tube of compound at my desk; any PC I end up
fiddling with gets its heatsink checked.
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