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    Tim!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by hydra, Mar 21, 2012.

  1. hydra

    hydra Breaks Laptops

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    ICD7 is in the mail, and it’s storming outside. So’ decided to retire to my lair and torture my UL30vt heat pipe then clean more of the messed up stock TIM.

    Now I’m really board; lets see, “boiled out” TIM! OK, should be good for some smoke. I also wanted to see crude performance difference between my two on hand pastes. I refuse to try peanut butter..don't ask.

    I have a very old tube of no name silica paste. Dow Corning won’t put their name on this stuff. 33W Ungar iron for heat source..about what the UL30vt runs when fully stuffed. And, a very little bit of AS5 left, so…

    The Ungar is rated at 33W (TDP!) ;) The small cylindrical copper tip is way smaller than any CPU/GPU base but not rocket science. Free running should be around 230C but work can’t lend out laser thermal gum at the moment.

    So in the complete waste of your time; no smoke or boiling of the two pastes were detected at 60C (transfered), temps too low atm but remember; very small contact area and tip is maybe 100C. When I get ICD7 I’ll turn down iron to make hot plate 100C.. way hotter than I would ever hope to run!

    Notice the two different readings by about 5C? Still awake?

    Cheers

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    hydra, Mar 21, 2012
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