Question about heatsink adhesive...

As a practical matter, just about any sort of epoxy will work. Some just work better than others. Arctic Silver works the best for your appliaction with Arctic Alumina coming in at a close second.

I mess around with this stuff so much that I've abandoned using the hard to find/get stuff. I use plain old two part epoxy and mix it with aluminum oxide powder. I add enough to make a paste then just apply it. It works really well.

You can get aluminum oxide powder at any hobby shop that caters to rock collectors. It is usually called lapidary compound and is used to polish rocks. Just get the finest grit that they have. It should look about like baby powder and is sold in 1lb bottles and should go a long way.

Originally Posted by AAngel

As a practical matter, just about any sort of epoxy will work. Some just work better than others. Arctic Silver works the best for your appliaction with Arctic Alumina coming in at a close second.

I mess around with this stuff so much that I've abandoned using the hard to find/get stuff. I use plain old two part epoxy and mix it with aluminum oxide powder. I add enough to make a paste then just apply it. It works really well.

You can get aluminum oxide powder at any hobby shop that caters to rock collectors. It is usually called lapidary compound and is used to polish rocks. Just get the finest grit that they have. It should look about like baby powder and is sold in 1lb bottles and should go a long way.

Thank you very much for your answer! The part about the aluminum oxide power I don't get though, I thought you didn't want the epoxy to conduct electricity? I could just mix some sliver heatsink compound in with the JB-Weld then....hmm...

Bye

[ssspconcepts]

Originally Posted by AAngel

As a practical matter, just about any sort of epoxy will work. Some just work better than others. Arctic Silver works the best for your appliaction with Arctic Alumina coming in at a close second.

I mess around with this stuff so much that I've abandoned using the hard to find/get stuff. I use plain old two part epoxy and mix it with aluminum oxide powder. I add enough to make a paste then just apply it. It works really well.

You can get aluminum oxide powder at any hobby shop that caters to rock collectors. It is usually called lapidary compound and is used to polish rocks. Just get the finest grit that they have. It should look about like baby powder and is sold in 1lb bottles and should go a long way.

This beats the heck outta buying a tiny little tube of Artic Silver for $7, which doesn't go very far at all.