[geeks] Heat sink on a P3

[Joshua Newton]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:43:49 -0500, "Sridhar Ayengar"
<ploopster at gmail.com> said:
> Joshua Boyd wrote:
> > The fan died on a P3 I use for serving music and other miscellenous
> > storage.
> > 
> > I bought a new fan/heatsink combo at a local computer shop.  The new
> > heatsink seems a little loose, meaning that I can slide it around a
> > small amount even though the clip is on it.  It does have silicone
> > thermal paste between the die and heatsink.  
> > 
> > My question is should it conduct heat well enough even though it isn't
> > massively tight like other heatsink clips I've dealt with (like the one
> > I took off, or the ones on the P4s at work).
> 
> Silicone?  I thought cooling paste was silver dust + alcohol + thixcin.
> 
> Anyway, I wouldn't trust it.  It should be tight.  You might be able to 
> get away with bending the clip and reattaching it.
> 
> Peace...  Sridhar

Even expensive HSF units usually ship with a "token" syringe -- or even
plastic packet -- of the cheap, horrible silicone goo.  Sometimes even
units from companies that also make/sell "performance" goo.