Took me about 3 minutes to apply the defogger. 2.5 minutes to figure out that it just can't be done with a jeweler's screwdriver, and 30 seconds to do it with a toothpick. I used a cheap square toothpick but obviously a round one is best. Blot it once on a non-porous surface so that the drop is not too big. I did it on two chips and got both right on the first shot (although the first chip was pretty borderline). Take my advice and blot and it should go well. If it doesn't go well than you may be looking at an hour like Azratax.:Q
Pencil lead is not much of a conductor - it's more of a resistor. How much so depends
greatly upon the pencil brand.
I just assembled a Abit KT7A-RAID, Athlon 1.2, Taisol heatsink (lapped and smeared) in a Antec SX830 case. Used a pair of those $85 Maxtor 30GB 7200rpm ATA100 drives from the hot deals forum (deal dead) and a pair of $90 CAS2 256Mb
Crucial chips and I must say that in all my years of professionally building systems, I have never been so impressed with the quality, performance, or trouble-free setup as I was with this system. At default voltage the Athlon running at 137x9.5=1302MHz idles at 100F and picks up maybe 5-6 degrees under full load. The hard drives are silent, as is the Antec p/s, the case fans and CPU fan make only minimal noise.