Sentence examples for thermal compounds from inspiring English sources

For as long as I've been putting together PCs, the de facto standard in thermal compounds has been Arctic Silver.

But TweakTown has checked out this new Gelid stuff that has a leg up on it in a couple ways: it's nonmetallic so you don't have to worry about it getting anywhere it shouldn't and shorting some circuits, and it requires no curing or drying so it's even easier to apply than other thermal compounds.

If you're not familiar with the term, a thermal compound is a sort of heat-conducting paste, often metallic in composition.

The holes were filled with a resin (PK-3 thermal compound, Prolimatech, Taipei, Taiwan) with a high thermal conductivity (approximately 11 W/mK) to avoid air gaps inside the holes.

In this paper, a new design of a glazed and an unglazed inverted absorber partially covered photovoltaic thermal compound parabolic concentrator (PVT-CPC) water collector has been proposed.

Hence, an analytical expression of electrical and thermal efficiency of fully covered photovoltaic thermal compound parabolic concentrator (PVT-CPC) system has been derived as a function of climatic and design parameters.

Moreover, the measured temperature distributions in the copper block with three 1.8-mm diameter holes filled with PK-3 thermal compound fillers were compared with a copper block without holes to examine the effect of the thermocouples/holes with fillers on the temperature field.

The benchmarks were selected on the basis of their similarity to designs found in today's Light Water Reactor (LWR) compact storage pools and transport casks and in total comprised as much as 122 cases belonging to the category of thermal compound systems with low-enriched uranium.

Wipe old thermal compound off the CPU with a rag.

Apply a thin, fresh layer of thermal compound.

Be sure to remove any plastic film from over the CPU and heatsink, and Apply Thermal Paste, also known as thermal compound, when installing a heatsink.