Taking Tape Off TIM = Good

[TunaBoo]

A customer came in today, couldnt figure out why his t-bird 1 GHz got to like 60C and crashed. He had bad air flow and all, but when I took off his volcano 2, not only had he left the paper tape deal over the TIM, he had like half a packet of white radio shack goo speared ALL over the cpu (I think he made huge pile on top of CPU). He was really nice and stuff, I guess it could be easy to make. I am very suprised the CPU made it.

I think I've seen this 3 times now


On the Volcano2 note, where do I buy that fan, and can I mount it on a swiftec or comporable HSF?

 

[Viper GTS]

The first time I ever used thermal compound I had no clue what I was doing. I used an entire tube of Radio Shack paste on a Cyrix PR166+.



Viper GTS

 

[Parser]

Hey its not too easy you know. When I first installed my PIII 1Ghz I left the puddy on the heatsink and put arctic silver II all over the cpu(not just the die). I missed the link on the arctic silver website and did what I thought would work. When I finally realized how the arctic silver was supposed to be used I ripped that HSF off in a flash.

Good thing that arctic silver doesn't conduct.

 

[TunaBoo]

<< Hey its not too easy you know. When I first installed my PIII 1Ghz I left the puddy on the heatsink and put arctic silver II all over the cpu(not just the die). I missed the link on the arctic silver website and did what I thought would work. When I finally realized how the arctic silver was supposed to be used I ripped that HSF off in a flash.

Good thing that arctic silver doesn't conduct. >>



Naw actually its a good thing you didnt have a TBird. Smear AS all over the bridges and I promise it will conduct just enough to mess with your chip