We are trying to keep our board in safe temperature ranges. It doesn't have a PC-like chipset with temperature sensors, so monitoring tools like lmsensors don't seem to work.
We made an experiment to attach a heatsink in a non permanent way (avoiding the thermal epoxy alternative).
Here are some pics of our setup:
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| We divided a low airspeed heatsink in 4 small pieces |
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| Some good quality thermal compound |
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| And a few extra pieces to keep it in place |
I've had my pandaboard for a few days now and noticed the CPU does indeed get warm so I went and purchased a heatsink which does appear to help things out a bit. Where did you get your mounting hardware for the heatsink?
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We got the plastic push pins from an old graphic card's heatsink (like these: http://cgi.ebay.com/Set-4-Push-Pins-spring-/190549937290?pt=Apple_Desktops&hash=item2c5da94c8a http://www.radianheatsinks.com/pdf/Plastic-Push-Pins.pdf).
The wire is a straightened steel spring from an old printer, but any stiff steel about 1mm diameter should work.