Thermal Compound *REVISITED

[Valkerie]

So if you don't want to use thermal compounds for numerous reason untold, why not use a metal plate? Say, copper, silver? Gold? Anything metal like a plate?

Using jello, lotion, or other grocery products won't work well, but metal plate?

 

[Trippytiger]

Well, a metal plate isn't going to fill in the little pits on the CPU die/heatspreader or the base of the heatsink, so it won't help conductivity at all. It's not going to help ensure better contact between the heatsink base and CPU, either. In fact, since you're adding another layer of insulation between the CPU and the heatsink (complete with pits of its own on each side) you would probably be making things much worse than simply attaching the heatsink with no thermal compound.

 

[firebirdude]

Originally posted by: Trippytiger
Well, a metal plate isn't going to fill in the little pits on the CPU die/heatspreader or the base of the heatsink, so it won't help conductivity at all. It's not going to help ensure better contact between the heatsink base and CPU, either. In fact, since you're adding another layer of insulation between the CPU and the heatsink (complete with pits of its own on each side) you would probably be making things much worse than simply attaching the heatsink with no thermal compound.

Agreed 100%

 

[keeleysam]

No.

 

[Ketchup]

Originally posted by: Valkerie
So if you don't want to use thermal compounds for numerous reason untold, why not use a metal plate? Say, copper, silver? Gold? Anything metal like a plate?

Using jello, lotion, or other grocery products won't work well, but metal plate?

If you don't want to use thermal compound for "reasons untold" use the stuff that comes on the bottom of your retail heatsink.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Why would you not want to use thermal compound? Metal plate of copper? What the heck do you think the heatsink base is? Just use some AS5, end of story.

 

[Sentential]

the point of TIM is to provide a seal. Unless the metal was soldred to the core of the CPU it wouldnt work

 

[imported_Kensai]

Originally posted by: Sentential
the point of TIM is to provide a seal. Unless the metal was soldred to the core of the CPU it wouldnt work

It would still have microscopic bumps. You'd need to soder the metal to the core and the heatsink to the plate, just like the old days.

 

[Ketchup]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Why would you not want to use thermal compound? Metal plate of copper? What the heck do you think the heatsink base is? Just use some AS5, end of story.