So what if thermal compound spreads?

Noozer wrote:



How can you have capacitive properties if a compound is not conductive?



You don't understand what a capacitor is do you?

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Stacey

Stacey wrote:
Matt wrote:


One of their instructions that I took seriously is that excess compound
between chip leads can cause capacitance problems. Next time I will buy
a low-capacitance (low dielectric) thermal compound.


That's what's insane about using that stuff, it's conductive!


Capacitative, not conductive. Chip leads with Arctic Silver in between
form a capacitor.

Stacey wrote:

Matt wrote:


One of their instructions that I took seriously is that excess compound
between chip leads can cause capacitance problems. Next time I will buy
a low-capacitance (low dielectric) thermal compound.


That's what's insane about using that stuff, it's conductive!

It doesn't matter if its conductive or not it just matters if the
conduction affects the threshold values of "0" and "1" withint he IC.
Going from 0.2v to 0.5v when the CPU counts (i don't know what it is for
the AMD's, lets say 1.00v = 1, 0.8v = 0). still means a 0 and won't lead
to many errors.

if it was that conductive, wouldn't everyon's L2 and L5 bridges be
enabled?

Matt wrote:

Stacey wrote:

Matt wrote:


One of their instructions that I took seriously is that excess compound
between chip leads can cause capacitance problems. Next time I will buy
a low-capacitance (low dielectric) thermal compound.



That's what's insane about using that stuff, it's conductive!


Capacitative, not conductive. Chip leads with Arctic Silver in between
form a capacitor.

My EM fields coming from my brain and the lamp post outside my window on
the other side of the street form a "capacitance" also called a
dielectric effect. Big deal, doesn't mean i'lle be electrocuted by the
lamp post. You really want to bitch about it, sit down and do the
calculations

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:25:05 -0400, Stacey wrote:

Noozer wrote:



How can you have capacitive properties if a compound is not conductive?



You don't understand what a capacitor is do you?


Yeah, it's the difference between a stroboscope and a flashlight