Super Glue situation

[voodoomelon]

Hey,
I bought some Antec Silver compound the other day, and the idiot i am, only realised that it was'nt an adhesive when it arrived, which is what i needed to attach my Blue Orb to my Geforce 2 MX400.
So what i've gone and done is apply compound, as instructed, on the back of the Orb and on to the chip, but i've also done something which i know i should'nt have. I used Super Glue to stick the 2 together. I applied 4 drops to the Orb and the glue would have spread out over the chip.
I read somewhere that i shoud have mixed the compound with some other thermal adhesive, but i wo'nt be buying on the net again for a while.
Should i have done this, will the compound even work now, with a layer of Super Glue in between? Is there any kind of household adhesive which i could use instead?
Thanks!

 

[Revx]

personally i use the artic silver thermal adhesive, but i have heard of people dooing the exact same thing you did, it shouldnt be a problem

 

[AmbientFiction]

Should be cool I have done it with thermal paste(crap) and also AS2. As long as you don't get too much glue down because when you do that it forms a field between the heatsink and the gpu. All that would really need to happen if you were to get too much glue is bump it wrong and it would just fall off. I have a MX 400 myself and still can't believe that they have passive heatsinks. If your thermal paste is more like a normal compound I might be apped to check it a bit more. Sometimes super glue will set that stuff up and its like have one of those thermal pads on your GPU. I am sure your overrclocking it and you don't want that at all. Trust me I found mine like that and the back of the card was about 10 - 15ºF more than what it should have been at stock speed. One key thing you can look for in your games is a sudden dip in FPS and if those FPS stay at that level or go lower then you need to pull your sink and do it over. I lapped my passive sink and then AS2 and superglued it back down with a 23cfm fan from a Volcano 3 heatsink and I am happy with it. I need some ram sinks though.

Again if you need any more info just ask or PM me and I'll see what I can do to help.

 

[Ugmore Baggage]

I'd be very surprised if super glue wasn't corrosive.

At least I always thought it was. Then again, I've never gotten the stuff to hold to anything besides skin.

 

[AmbientFiction]

I'd be very surprised if super glue wasn't corrosive.

At least I always thought it was. Then again, I've never gotten the stuff to hold to anything besides skin.

Not that I know of. I have used it on lapped metal heatsinks and have yet to have any problems. The true problem is getting it on plastic because of the fact that it bonds by melting plastic together.

 

[The Overclocker]

i would have personally only put the super glue in a couple for small dots on the edge of the GPU in order to prevent it interfering with the heat transfer. However what you have done is perfectly acceptable.

Another method i have seen is to hold the cooler down with silicon sealent put around the edges, this may be a good method because it can be easilly removed and can be used with peltiers - i have not tried it though