how much benifit from rshack goop to as3?

nealric · Dec 10, 2002

Do you think it would be worth the trouble of remounting my waterblock and reasealing it to go from my 99c radioshack white goop to as3. How much of a temp decrease would I see at low temps? (see sig)

I.M.O.G. · Dec 10, 2002

i would expect no more than a few degrees drop from changing the goop. i think it wouldn't be too much trouble, and it would be worth changing it to me just so i wasnt sitting around wondering what difference it would make... thats the kind of stupid stuff that keeps me up at night

nealric · Dec 10, 2002

Yeah- I dont think it would be THAT much- but If I could go from 17c to say 12c, it would make me very happy

Daemonfly · Dec 10, 2002

You'd get a few degrees, but nothing drastic. RS stuff is pretty low end. Do it if you want, or just keep some as3 around for the next time you pop the block off.

illig · Dec 11, 2002

nealric said:
Yeah- I dont think it would be THAT much- but If I could go from 17c to say 12c, it would make me very happy

heh... sorry, but there's no way you'll get 5C from a goop change (unless the original goop was chunky peanut butter

)

at most you'll get 1-2degrees change...

but as time goes on, as3 stays moist and keeps transferring heat well while radio shack goop tends to either dry out or melt and run out! (i've had both happen... i'm sure they change suppliers often)

so do it if you want a consistent interface material... but don't expect big cooling gains

Lithan · Dec 11, 2002

Hmm Yeah. That chunky stuff is pretty bad. Toothpaste on the other hand... seems pretty good.

gwcz · Dec 12, 2002

You could always do what my buddy did, and move your pc into his freezer. It's between the deer meat (he didn't shoot it, he hit it with his truck) and the ice cream.

I.M.O.G. · Dec 12, 2002

sweet, all you gotta do when you get hungry is take off the heatsink, slap some deer meat on the cpu, eat some ice cream while you wait and... voila, the venison is served.

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