[mythtv-users] OT: Hardware purchase question for eventual HD Mythtv system

[John Drescher]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>> On Thursday 21 May 2009 17:07:32 Brad Fuller wrote:
>>>
>>> In the last year or so AMDs that I've purchased had the thermal
>>> compound on the CPU itself.
>>
>> That would be good, because most people tend to use too much. You only need
>> enough to fill the small voids caused by imperfect machining of the surfaces.
>> Even the best compound doesn't conduct heat as well as good metal-to-metal
>> contact.
>
> IIRC, AMD requires "phase-change" thermal compound, not heatsink grease.
>
> That compound is typically a film on the heatsink surface (at least,
> with AMD heatsinks).
>

This comes with the retail boxed cpu / heatsink however its perfectly
fine to scrape that off and apply ordinary silicon based heat sink
compound.

John