Thewhoisgrand

I was thinking more along the lines of an epoxy type thermal adhesive rather than tape.

So I have an old Asus G73jh and I believe the ancient mobility hd 5870 has kicked the bucket. I would like to replace it but the prices for 5870s are still pretty high for their age. ~$60 from China. For that same price I could get a used Dell AMD firepro m6100, heatsink from a Dell Precision m6800 (the model the m6100 is from) and some thermal adhesive. This gpu swap has been successful before with a firepro m6000, hd 6970m and a few others. I assume it will work with the m6100. The issue is getting the heatsink to fit. In the past people have used the stock heatsink of the new gpu and swapped the heatpipes. I use a heatgun to remove the heatpipes. That's the easy part. My question is can I use thermal adhesive to reattach the heat pipes from the 5870 onto the heatsink of the m6100? Solder would be best but I'm not great at it. Would thermal adhesive be Able to transfer enough heat to the pipes? Tldr: Can thermal adhesive be used to attach heatpipes to a heatsink? And will it work well enough?