From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 26 17:30:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E208F37B543 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:30:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-71-134.dialup.hiwaay.net [216.180.71.134]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e6R0UGj13811 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:30:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA16722 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:30:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200007270030.TAA16722@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Quiet cpu fans In-reply-to: Message from Linh Pham of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:51:26 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:30:13 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Linh Pham writes: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Haikal Saadh wrote: > > > While were on this topic, I'd also like to ask: > > > > Is it necessary to use thermal grease when attaching a heatsink on > > nowdays? > > It is highly recommended that you put some thermal grease between the CPU > and the heatsink surface. The thermal grease helps increase the heat > transfer between the two surfaces but closing any gaps and my slightly > increasing the surface area. > > Just don't use too much. Correct. Remember that "thermal grease" is not a great conductor of heat. The only reason you use it is that its better than air gaps. So put the thermal grease on as lightly as you can and still "wet" both the CPU and the heatsink. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message