Temperature – How to Attach a Heat Sink to Inductors on a Motherboard

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If I wanted to attach a heat sink to the inductors on my motherboard, which glue could I use?

I have a Gigabyte A320M-S2H, this motherboard has heating problem when used with the AMD ZRyzen 7 2700X processor. I believe that only a heat sink would solve this problem.

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If you search the internet, you will find that the vast majority of motherboard models for this processor already have heatsinks.

Here is an example:

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Is the heatsink on the mosfets or on the inductors?

I found a good image to explain this problem

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Here is my problem

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My processor is throttling to 500 Mhz

Best Answer

It might not solve your problem, but to answer your question:

I want to attach a heat sink to the inductors on my motherboard, which glue could I use?

Since there is no feature to mechanically mount a heatsink, adhesives must be applied.
Thermally conductive epoxy does exist, but it is rather expensive. (eg: 3M TC-2810)
More suitable would be thermally conductive dual side tape. (eg 3M 8810)

Back to your problem: You have one of the cheapest motherboards (€50*), and fitted the highest power Ryzen 7 processor (105 Watt). This is not the intended configuration of this motherboard, power throttling is to be expected.
I recommend going with the 65 Watt Ryzen chips for this motherboard.

*Only two boards are cheaper!

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