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Thermal tape for Athlon

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by lblewett

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Im in australia and im finding it very hard to find warrenty information for AMD prossessors i have a athlon xp2600+ and recently i had to take it from the mother board therefore removing the tape from the bottom of the heatsink does any one know what kind of tape is acceptable and weather it will void my warrenty if i use somthing different? i have found a website selling items titled AMD CPU Thermal
> pad for use on AMD heatsink will this product void my warrenty?

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by thechas

I use the standard white heat-sink compound.

The issue here is the thermal conductivity of the material.

The tape is used because it is easy to assemble at the heat-sink manufacture and does not have the mess of the white paste.

Whether you use the tape or thermal paste, the purpose of the material is to fill in the gaps between the surface of the heat-sink and the CPU.

The white paste does a better job of filling the gaps and transferring the heat than the thermal pads do.

The only 'trick' with the paste is to NOT use too much.

Many of the Athlon "tweakers" use high conductivity compounds such as "Arctic Silver".
These pastes have metal particles in them and MUST be used VERY carefully.

Check out the guides from AMD for thermal design and heat-sink installation.

http://tinyurl.com/2au33

Bottom line, I would use heat-sink paste. If you get a pad that is thicker than the original one on your heat-sink it could place too much pressure on the CPU die.

Chas

by wlbowers

A good heatsink compound will work just as well.

Artic Silver is getting raves from the tech industry and it is cheap.

http://tinyurl.com/66ve7

The only reason that oem's use the tape is convience, it is not messy.

Good Luck Lee

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