[SWLUG] Thermal Compound and IPA

[plebs.col at virgin.net]

I think I had a small quantity of isopropyl alchol from Boots for cleaning  
something.    It is also in the  kit to clean floppy drives.
Ilyan


On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:21:08 +0100, Emyr Derfel <emyr42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Last night I transplanted by PC into an Antec P180 case with a rather  
> nice Akasa Evo-120 heatsink. The CPU is an Athlon X2 4200+ (socket AM2,  
> 2.2GHz, 89W TDP). The mobo is an Asus M2N-E.
>
> I wiped off the old thermal gunk with a kitche towel and tried to apply  
> some of the RS heat sink compound my colleague had given me. This gunk  
> seemed very sticky, and a bit too solid. I went with it anyway, and the  
> PC ran for 3 or 4 minutes, long enough to get lm_sensors and  
> gnome-sensors-applet installed. I'd set the Q-fan feature in the BIOS to  
> optimal so I could hear the CPU fan changing speed.
>
> After another minute of so, one core got hotter very fast, and I killed  
> the power at 85 degrees. After waiting for it to cool a bit, I tried  
> booting into WinXP to see if lm_sensors was misreading. The machine shut  
> itself off before my monitoring app loaded.
>
> My plan is to clean all the old gunk off and try again with new thermal  
> grease. The only sellers of IsoPropyl Alcohol I could find were Maplin  
> at £8 a can, and the cheapest gunk they had was about £2. I know from  
> ebuyer that I should be able to get a small sachet of gunk for under a  
> quid, but I don't know of any other sources for the IPA.
>
> Emyr
>
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