Question about LGA 775 cooler backplate adhesive tape.
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From: Darklight on 15 Jan 2010 04:23 Bozothedeathmachine wrote: > > Hi, all. > > I just got a used LGA 775 CPU and cooler. The backplate for the cooler > was attached to the MB with some kind of tape. I finally got it off, > but destroyed the tape. The tape looked like the insulating anit- > static stuff HW ships in. Is that correct? I'm looking for a > replacement to put it on my new mobo, but can't find it anywhere. Do I > need this stuff, or will normal double-sided tape do? There's some > metal solder exposed on the bottom of the board and I don't want to > short anything by not having proper insulation. > > Thanks. any chance of an image for future reference
From: Bozothedeathmachine on 15 Jan 2010 05:56 On Jan 15, 12:05 am, "GlowingBlueMist" <GlowingBlueM...(a)truely.invalid> wrote: > Paul wrote: > The plastic from the side of a gallon > milk bottle cuts well with a good pair of scissors and is quite puncture > resistant as well as non-conductive. Alas, I live in Switzerland, so none of those gallon jugs here. All the milk's in tetrapaks, and tastes horrible. Thanks for the advice, it sounds like a good one. I'm going to try that overhead projector transparency thing above. Cheers!
From: kony on 15 Jan 2010 18:48 On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:57:32 -0500, Paul <nospam(a)needed.com> wrote: >The black foam that leaded ICs used to ship in, may compress too much, >and wouldn't be my first choice as a solution. > >If you need double sided tape, one place to look in the hardware store, >is in the area they keep the "window insulation kits". I remember getting >a roll of double sided tape from there. A "window insulation kit" is a supply >of double sided tape, plus cheap plastic sheet, that goes over the interior >of your home windows, to prevent condensation in the winter. The double sided >tape holds the plastic film, to the wood of the window frame. The black foam ICs ship in is usually a special ESD safe material that has modest conductivity, it would not be good to use under a CPU/board traces. If the original foam is black that is just coincidence. If the heatsink backplate is not metal, there is no concern about whether the insulation is slightly punctured, but the adhesive material used to hold the plate in place should still be at least be low enough density that if the leads sticking through the board where of different lengths, they would compress the material enough that the place sits reasonably parallel to the bottom motherboard plane still rather than angled a bit due to being suspended by the leads. On the other hand if the backplate is metal, the hard sheeting should be against that plate and the lower density foam between it and the motherboard. Most often it won't matter, but I have not heard of a keep-out zone for component leads on the back of a board (though there might be? I don't know...) so that would be more universally compatible.
From: ~misfit~ on 15 Jan 2010 22:48 Somewhere on teh intarwebs Flasherly wrote: > On Jan 14, 3:58 pm, Bozothedeathmachine > <bozothedeathmach...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> I just got a used LGA 775 CPU and cooler. The backplate for the >> cooler was attached to the MB with some kind of tape. I finally got >> it off, but destroyed the tape. The tape looked like the insulating >> anit- static stuff HW ships in. Is that correct? I'm looking for a >> replacement to put it on my new mobo, but can't find it anywhere. Do >> I need this stuff, or will normal double-sided tape do? There's some >> metal solder exposed on the bottom of the board and I don't want to >> short anything by not having proper insulation. >> >> Thanks. > > Heatsink adhesive for directly attaching to the CPU. Garbage compared > to better compounds. You risk burning your CPU up without a > replacement. Go over to Newegg and look up CPU thermal paste, and > look around at some hardware sites for how to put the stuff on. LOL!!! Googletard alert! There is an 'en vouge' saying; "It takes a villiage to raise a child". I can now add to that; "It takes a villiage idiot to raise a smile" Have fun in your own little world and thanks for the chuckles. -- Shaun. "Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.
From: Benedict on 17 Jan 2010 05:34
"Bozothedeathmachine" <bozothedeathmachine(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:474b3621-2d5b-44b6-936b-41357b60d7f8(a)u6g2000yqf.googlegroups.com... > > Hi, all. > > I just got a used LGA 775 CPU and cooler. The backplate for the cooler > was attached to the MB with some kind of tape. I finally got it off, > but destroyed the tape. The tape looked like the insulating anit- > static stuff HW ships in. Is that correct? I'm looking for a > replacement to put it on my new mobo, but can't find it anywhere. Do I > need this stuff, or will normal double-sided tape do? There's some > metal solder exposed on the bottom of the board and I don't want to > short anything by not having proper insulation. > > Thanks. I don't think normal double sided tape (from a stationery shop) is conductive so yes - it'll be fine. Plus- all the backplates I've seen on aftermarket coolers were plastic and therefore non-conductive. |