Before you spend any money: carefully open your computer and remove the fuzz that has accumulated on/in your heat sink, fan, in the power supply, in the vent ports/slots etc. If you can remove the cpu heat sink, hose it off and let it dry (after having removed the fan!!!). Clean the contact surface from old paste(sometimes that's a thermal tape instead of paste), re-attach the fan to the heat sink, wipe off the old compound from the cpu, put a small dab of new thermal compound on the cpu and re-attach the heat sink. Be extra careful, some designs require a lot of force and a slip of the screwdriver can wipe out the mobo. After all that, your system should be good until it either gets dirty again or until a fan dies. Do keep your thermal shut down protection in your bios, but you could bump it up to 60 degrees. That's where I keep mine. good luck, d. On Sunday 01 May 2005 01:56, James Knott wrote:
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
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The thermal grease, from Thermaloy, is _specifically_ made for this application. Practically every heatsink in any power supply or audio amplifier, or professionally assembled computer, will have this
I know this kind of stuff is available. I've only mentioned this kind of material how many times now?
Don't call it a "grease"; it isn't.
I guess it depends on how you use it. ;-)
Actually, check http://www.intek-uk.com/TCGheatdata.htm