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Glue for heatsink
Name: FFJ Date: October 13, 2003 at 20:27:33 Pacific OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: Intel P4
Comment:
My heatsink came off my video card, what can I use to attach it back to the board? I know they make something, can I pick it up at Radio Shack or where can I find it?
Name: johnoh Date: October 13, 2003 at 20:45:03 Pacific
Reply:
you can probably get thermal adhesive (different from thermal compound) from radio shack or a computer store.
you could also re-use the thermal paste that is still on the sink and gpu, and then just put a drop of super glue on each of the corners of the gpu to bond the sink to the gpu
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