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#468848 - 09/24/06 03:58 PM Attach A Heatsink [Re: Zugzwump]
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Hello I'm going to attach a heatsink to my  vert very old ATI Rage 128 (16VRAM) graphiccard. I found a reather small heatsink that will to the job perfectly. I'm going to use ordinary thermal compound but I wonder how will the heatsink hang-on to the card. If I got it right the thermal compound gets stiff after several hours or days of use. But until that day it gets stiff will the heatsink hang-on to the card? The card is located in an old B/W G3 so it's going to be hanging upside-down. I'm afraid that the heatsink will fall off since it's just attach with thermal-compound. Should I be afraid?

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#468850 - 09/24/06 07:02 PM Re: Attach A Heatsink [Re: Zugzwump]
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yes.  use some mylar tape.
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#468851 - 09/24/06 07:18 PM Re: Attach A Heatsink [Re: Zugzwump]
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the thermal compound is just for the transfer of heat.

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#468852 - 09/24/06 08:38 PM Re: Attach A Heatsink [Re: Zugzwump]
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The way to go is thermal expoxy.  Pick up at http://www.frozencpu.com.

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#468853 - 11/21/06 02:19 PM Re: Attach A Heatsink [Re: Zugzwump]
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Heres a gettho trick for this. If the card has two holes on each corner of the GPU you can use a big paper clip and straightin it out and use it to hold the heatsink on and use two Pencil erasers to hold the paper clip.
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