Cooling How to reattach my X-fi sound card heatsink?

I'm in the middle of breaking down my gaming rig to work out which parts to move over to the new one, and upon taking my X-fi Xtreme Music sound card out I realise its heatsink fell off! For how long who knows... I guess it must have fallen off over time due to heat or whatnot.

Anyways, I'd like to reattach it if I can - I've got some Arctic Silver laying around but what would I use to glue it back on?

Here's a little picture to give you an idea of how it looks like with it on:



Or maybe I don't need to? I've been using the rig pretty intensely over Xmas and it pumps out sound like normal. A quick read round and it seems later models of these cards shipped without the heatsink? Any other X-fi owners here can verify this?

Cheers

 

Given that it fell off, I'm assuming it wasn't attached with screws?
I imagine it had thermal pads before, and over time they have lost their adhesive properties.
More of those would do the job if I'm guessing right.

 

Them small heatsinks are usually always held on with some kind of thermal pad as Phoenix has already said,

Give that ago

 

Thanks guys, I'll try and find a thermal pad and give it a go

 

That or a dab of crazy glue!

 

thermal pads.. but sticky version. Some really don't stick.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/SEKISUI-5760-TH...677?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a0c21cee5

something like this?

 

thermal pads, or if you never want it to come off EVER again, some thermal epoxy

 

if you mix Thermal paste with alridite you get a thermal glue make sure you place the heat sink exactly where you want it mind you cos it isnt coming off again.

 

Have a look at this Arctic thermal adhesive

I wouldnt personally risk trying to mix epoxy and TIM, its a tiny heatsink so a thermal adhesive pad or some of the above will do