First post, by feipoa
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Could someone recommend a thermally conductive two-sided tape for heatsinks? I see numerous offerings on eBay. I would like to use some kind of removable thermal tape on 386 CPU upgrades, like the DRx2-66 or SXL2. These CPUs get very hot and the PGA sockets do not have any clamps to hold down a heatsink. I'm looking for tape which will not stick so hard onto the CPU like glue, but something which will pull off if I twist it. It should be strong enough, though, that the heatsink will not fall off if there is a fan spinning on it and the heatsink is placed vertically in a computer tower.
Any recommendations? I find a lot of the tape used on GPUs and similar to be really hard to remove. I often use a chizel to remove them. I do not want to be damaging a rare CPU like a DRx2-66 with overly sticky tape.
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