Epoxy

[XJ]

Just a quick little question here.
I am in the middle of cutting out some nice little mosfet heatsinks for my 8RDA+, but need a little help on how to bond them together. I know i need some sort of thermal epoxy, but i really cant be bother to go ordering a brand new tube of artic alumina whatch-a-ma-call-it for one little job.
I do have some sort of epoxy which came with my Zalman NB32J northbridge heatsink (two different coloured syringes, mix then leave to cure sorta thing).
All i really wanna know is, will i need to mix a little ASIII into this epoxy to aid in thermal transfer? would this stuff be fine on its own? or could doing this possibly reduce the strength of the epoxy?

[L337 M33P]

Epoxy is usually very strong so adding a SMALL amount of ASIII will not adversely affect it. Just spread it thinly, that's all ;)

[XJ]

ok, thanks. i havent even read the instructions yet on how to mix/apply it etc (if there are any), i'll get round to that tomorrow. Maybe i'll check some online guides or something :/

[Crism]

how about arctic silver alumina?

[XJ]

Originally posted by XJ
I know i need some sort of thermal epoxy, but i really cant be bother to go ordering a brand new tube of arctic alumina whatch-a-ma-call-it for one little job.


:/