- Sep 30, 2000
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well, not quite, but close. i had been noticing that my temps were a bit high lately, so i decided to reapply the arctic silver III. i had applied a pin mod on my CPU, since the EP4BDA undervolts, and i decided to very carefully remove the heatsink to keep from disturbing the little piece of wire keeping my computer stable. well, i was expecting the heatsink to be glued to the CPU!! 2 minutes of careful tugging, the heatsink comes off, with the CPU still on the bottom! the damn thing pulled the CPU out of a locked socket!
fortunately nothing was damaged, other than my nerves, and my temps are considerably lower with the fresh paste. the pin mod of course came out and i'm back to the bad ole' days of "come con come on come on, please boot up please boot up, please boot up". i guess that the claims of AS3 not drying out didn't take fast northwoods into account. i'm certainly gonna reapply the paste more often. i wish i knew that AS3 was such a good adhesive the last time i had to glue something .
fortunately nothing was damaged, other than my nerves, and my temps are considerably lower with the fresh paste. the pin mod of course came out and i'm back to the bad ole' days of "come con come on come on, please boot up please boot up, please boot up". i guess that the claims of AS3 not drying out didn't take fast northwoods into account. i'm certainly gonna reapply the paste more often. i wish i knew that AS3 was such a good adhesive the last time i had to glue something .