Hi,
Sorry for "re-opening" a 1 year old subject but I have quite a similar question.
I have a Scythe Musashi over an ATI Radeon 4850 (first generation).
I also have some few problems with the heatsinks since they tend to run away by themselves. I also suspect the bad sticking to cause overheating of some chips (the 8 ones around the GPU) , making my system somewhat unstable in games.
At the moment the best (less worst) solution i found is to clean up the heatsinks and to put some regular thermal compound on them. The "suction effect" seems to be temporary enough to keep the heat-sinks in place, but I fear them to run away with the time.
I don't like that much the idea on using thermal glue, as I am afraid of the "permanent" sticking it involve.
I found this product which is thermal adhesive tape:
Akasa AK-TT12-80.
However, in the specification they mention a thermal conductivity of "0.9 W/m.°C". I have absolutely no idea about what does that mean, but this is roughly 3 times less than the Scythe ' "
Thermal Elixer" Thermal Grease ' which is said to have a conductivity of "2.89 W/ (m·K)".
So here are the questions:
- Is this Akasa tape still conductive enough for the heatsink ?
- Is there any obvious reason why I shouldn't use that tape to "improve" the Scythe's heatsinks ?