On second thought is Arctic silver thermal adhesive any good?

http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_the … al_adhesive.htm

it says not to use it between a CPU and a heat sink but it says "Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive is a permanent adhesive. Components you attach with Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive will stay attached forever." since im not using a 6 or 8 core high end CPU would this adhesive be good to use?

How is this one too?

https://www.pccasegear.com/products/4712/seki … 60-thermal-tape

GabrielKnight123 wrote:

On second thought is Arctic silver thermal adhesive any good?

http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_the … al_adhesive.htm

it says not to use it between a CPU and a heat sink but it says "Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive is a permanent adhesive. Components you attach with Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive will stay attached forever." since im not using a 6 or 8 core high end CPU would this adhesive be good to use?

It works well, but as you saw it's permanent. You'll never get the heatsink back off.
I've used it on a P3-S 1.4GHz after breaking the heatsink retaining hooks. I was using that machine daily for office tasks and it did fine.
Not sure if it's available anymore though. I think it got discontinued.

AS makes great stuff.

You could just use some fishing line to go under the CPU (will thread through the CPU pins fine). Make a loop on each end of the fishing line.

And then to keep it tight up top, hook that fishing line up with a couple springs.

You will just need to make sure that the springs will be stretched out a bit so as to keep the fishing line tight so the heatsink will be held against the CPU well enough.

I wouldn't bother with thermal epoxy. It is impossible to remove. I only ever used it on things that did not have any other way to attach a heatsink to.

The problem with the fishing line is that it's made of nylon. When put under load nylon will slowly stretch and go slack. A spring would make it go slack faster. Also nylon melts at not too high a temperature, and even if it doesn't melt in contact with a hot CPU it will slackify at an accelerated rate.

If you have a 486 class CPU that is running hot enough to melt nylon string, then you have other problems, especially if you are using a heatsink.

For fishing line, I would try 20 or 30 lb test line. The thin stuff may have issues stretching.

You could always use cloth string instead.

You could also also use small o-rings to hook at all four corners instead of having string going across the bottom of the CPU.

And depending on the heatsink, you could possibly get away without springs... if the heatsink fins are just long fins going one way, you could always cut a slit near each corner to hook the o-rings to. In fact, that sounds like it would work really, really well the more I think about it.

This really is a Mc-Guyver job as the best course of action would to just get another cooler that is in good shape.

Maybe someone could 3D print a heat sink clip for these socket-3 cpu’s And sell them ?

The plastic clip I have isn't made the best as I had the cpu in the socket then I put the thermal paste on then I pushed down the heat sink that is holding the plastic clip both together and it didn't seem right so I removed the heat sink and clip and there was no connection at all between the cpu with thermal paste and heat sink. I have now removed the cpu and put it in place and everything has contact but im suspicious that if the cpu falls down a bit from the plastic clip it wont be transferring heat to the heat sink as the only thing stopping this from happening is a very small amount of plastic from the clip. long story short is the plastic clip aint much cop and it is a potential cpu killer. I am ordering some thermal tape from ebay and throwing away the clip.

Intel486dx33 wrote:

Maybe someone could 3D print a heat sink clip for these socket-3 cpu’s And sell them ?

A bracket that would clip on and add clips for bigger socket7/370 coolers would be really cool. It would rely on clearance on the motherboard around the CPU though.

There have been a number of reports here by people who use the old school solution that is still sold new. For example here:
https://www.amazon.com/EverCool-EC-486-Intel- … r/dp/B06WWLS1P3