How much weight can AS Adhesive hold?

ThePunkerGuy · § #1 03-07-2003, 12:23 AM

Hi, i was wondering... how much weight can Arctic Silver Adhesive hold? I have an old AMD K6-2 Heatsink.. kind of tall.. that i would like to use on my GeForce 3 TI200 card.. but i dont want the heatsink to like fall off or something from the weight, and hanging upside down on the vid card.... thanks!
- Mike

nagmier · § #2 03-07-2003, 12:53 AM

as long as you let it cure properly it should be fine. how big is the hsf? been a loooooooong time since I used a k6-2

ThePunkerGuy · § #3 03-07-2003, 01:04 AM

I gotta go to bed now.. tired.. i will post a pic of it next to my vid card tomorrow..
- Mike

mrmojado · § #4 03-07-2003, 02:36 PM

you standard cheap hardware store epoxy will hold upwards of 2000lbs.

i made my own artic epoxy as3+epoxy for my NB waterblock

i could not twist it off until i sat in the deepfreeze for an hour.

i dont think you have anything to worry about

steven975 · § #5 03-07-2003, 03:39 PM

The key is to make sure that the epoxy is subject to tensile forces, such as the heatsink being oriented horizontally and gravity pulling it down.

It won't do to well with shear strength, such as gravity pulling the sink along the plane parallel to the graphics card. For example, if you have a desk case with the card oriented up/down, gravity will pull the sink parallel to the card. In this case, the force isn't much, so the epoxy will likely hold.

FrizzleFried · § #6 03-07-2003, 06:47 PM

I used AS Epoxy on some RAMSINKS on an older video card I had that died. I was trying to remove the RAMsinks to use on another board. I successfully pulled 3 of them off....all 3 with the chip still attached to the ramsinks! I doubt you will have an issue at all...

Peace...

FrizzleFried

mrmojado · § #7 03-10-2003, 05:35 PM

frizzle if you want to save those ramsinks... get a can of compressed air and wrench. shoot the air onto the chip until it freezes and they will pop right off

chuson1 · § #8 03-10-2003, 06:02 PM

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I successfully pulled 3 of them off....all 3 with the chip still attached to the ramsinks! I doubt you will have an issue at all...

hahaha... i did da same thing as you... i tried to pull off 8 ramsink from my "b4-RMA" ATI 8500... and 3 out of 8 came out stuck with the ram... so i guess the AS Adhensive is REALLY strong....

hey mrmojado ...
this method work???? i dun need to pull of any ramsink now but just wondering HOW...... do you have a Link or something showing how's it work?
THX

xigfrid · § #9 03-10-2003, 06:23 PM

have a look here

in french , but nice pics anyway

http://forum.hardware.fr/forum2.php3...sh=&subcat=118

FrizzleFried · § #10 03-10-2003, 09:18 PM

Holy crap! That poor SOB pulled his whole GPU core off (and whats with that major mondo HSF for that card?)....

Frizz

xigfrid · § #11 03-10-2003, 09:31 PM

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Originally posted by FrizzleFried
Holy crap! That poor SOB pulled his whole GPU core off (and whats with that major mondo HSF for that card?)....

Frizz

I read the thread ,

the guy told that he was happy with the Alphapal 6035 perf on the VId card, but with GRAVITY , the HSF pop out with the core itself

nice warm i guess

FrizzleFried · § #12 03-11-2003, 12:44 AM

Now I don't believe that core just fell apart like that just from the weight of the HSF....it would require MUCH more pressure than that to do that.

Frizz