Wouldn’t sharing heat from a processor directly with other chips be a bad thing? Always imagined you could fry the little chips by the CPU or GPU or whatever you’re cooling
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RedIce25@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The only thing too much thermal paste does is leave a mess, but you might need thermal pads on VRMs for better contact
Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
toddestan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The chips are going to have a similar tolerance to heat. They’re all silicon and the fundamentals of how they work are the same. So if may be making a chip hotter than it normally would get, but still within its operational limits it’ll still work fine.
Though there is the argument that if the chip otherwise wouldn’t get that hot that you’re subjecting it to more thermal stress by subjecting it to wider temperature swings than it would otherwise experience. However, I wouldn’t worry too much about that as that’ll take a long time to be a problem.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Too much thermal grease is a barrier to heat, because it should only displace the air (a potent thermal insulator) between uneven surfaces. Oil would be better, but that runs away.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 week ago
I’m not familiar with those methods and “rice corn or spaghetti” makes me think you boil the the paste first
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
Idk what rice means here, but I can guess corn is just a bead in the center and spaghetti is the same thing but you have a narrower tube so the ball looks like spaghetti.
Rice sounds like it wouldn’t be enough paste to cover the die. Like you’re just putting down paste in a very small line the size of a grain of rice.