On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Christopher E. Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Rob Hagopian wrote:
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> > The physical machine is sitting in a 6x deg cold room with OEM heatsink
> > and fan attachments (with a good deal of heatsink compound which I added),
> > and 2 fans (220V West German metal fans, each used to cool an enclosure
> > for four 5.25" FH drives and a power supply) pointed directly at them.
>
> Just a side note here, but "a good deal of heatsink compound" is
> not a good thing. The idea with using thermal compound is to maximize
> surface to surface contact, the compound is only there to fill all the
> minute air gaps caused by the imperfect surfaces. Thermal compound is a
> much better thermal conductor than air, but not as good as direct contact,
> the proper way is to use as little compound as is needed to *lightly* coat
> the surfaces, not to use so much as to leave the heatsink floating on a
> pad of compound.
>
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