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16754A heatsinks

Question asked by latech on May 19, 2013
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Are there any difficulties to replacing a FPGA chip heatsink from the 16754A LA board?
I have (re)applied several times the thermal paste and the heatsinks for normal GPUs and CPUs
but I was wondering if the outer/edge paste for these FPGA heatsinks is some special glue paste.

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algoss May 20, 2013 5:05 AM
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I'll check, but that information may be lost in the mists of time.

That card was discontinued sometime in 2005, and went 'Out of Support' in August 2010. Agilent's manufacturing has moved in the meantime, so chasing down old manufacturing processes may not be possible.

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- latech @ algoss on May 20, 2013 2:28 PM
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  Unfortunately, one heatsink fell off the board when I had to apply force after it was entangled
  with the upper edge of the slot A (there are some metal threads that interfered with the heatsink
  structure).
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  - latech @ latech on Aug 5, 2013 6:03 AM
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    I have been able to reattach the heatsink using MX-4 on the chip and Arctic Alumina Thermal Adhesive
    on the outer margins of the heatsink. The only downside is the stress that this procedure glues the
    heatsink quite permanently hence the need to avoid any mistakes while doing it.
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