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Subject: C'Mon Smoker
Name:
LED
Date: 10/29/2004 8:03:21 PM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 209.202.131.89
In Reply to: Re: Is it to HOT..? posted by
Smoker
Message:
You know you want to suggest using toothpaste 
>There was nothing besides common sense stopping me from doing a quick test with the stuff, though, so I spread some on the 6Cu+'s base. The toothpaste I chose turned out to be slightly runnier than Arctic Silver 3, in case you care; it's pretty easy to spread it very thin. I put on a thicker layer, though; "optimising heat sink toothpaste application" is not something I intend to put on my curriculum vitae.
Firing up my Minty Fresh Thermal Transfer Experiment produced, rather hilariously, an excellent score - 0.47°C/W.
That's right - Toothpaste Superior To Arctic Silver 3! Film At Eleven!
This was only over half an hour, though. When I removed the cooler from the heater, the toothpaste that'd been squished out around the edge of the contact patch was already dry and crusty, and the rest of the paste would follow soon enough. It'd be just minty white dust inside a week, and probably wouldn't work much better than no thermal compound at all. Maybe worse.
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