On 2/5/10 7:56 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
On Feb 5, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
The bigger memory shouldn't cause heating. More likely the heatsink didn't connect properly on re-assembly. Make sure you renew the thermal compound.
Clark Can you elaborate on the thermal compound on the Wally heat sink? I have two machines and the contact surface of the heat sinks to the chip appears to be a tacky type of material. Are you suggesting that I apply some thermal paste on it? Also the thermal paste I have is a white one that I use on the Cubes and MDDs, would that be suitable. I have two 256MB sticks in the Wally's.
Off hand I don't remember the details of the Wallstreet's heatsink but if it has a pad then you likely don't need heatsink compound. When you say it was running hot, what was, specifically?
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