Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Friday 29 April 2005 00:30, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
get some thermal grease, from Thermaloy or someone like them. Take off the heatsink, coat it with a LIGHT layer of thermal grease, and reinstall it on the CPU.
Bzzzt!!
Sorry, but right after magnets, grease or oil of any kind is the absolute last thing you want to be putting inside your computer -- interiors of fans excepted. There is proper heatsink material on the market for uses like this.
That's what he just told him - apply some thermal grease between the heatsink and CPU. I see nothing wrong with this advice, in fact I would do this if it were my computer.
When someone says "grease" I think of petroleum-based lubricants, which is what grease normally is. You can also get things like molybdenum dioxide, which aren't technically greases but sometimes are called that -- whatever you call it, any grease is a lubricant, and you do not want those inside your computer case, ever. Heatsink material is not grease. The stuff I use is an off-white substance almost like putty. When exposed to air or heat, it hardens. When applied between two surfaces, it forms a high heat-transfer bond between the two substances (fills in all the little holes), and hardens from the heat. Hardly a grease.