[SWLUG] Thermal Compound and IPA

[David Scourfield]

Hi Emyr,

http://www.shinyhardware.co.uk/prods/showprod.asp?pid=1084 I've never 
shopped with these guys personally, though, so don't take that as a 
recommendation!

Have you tried nail-varnish remover instead, though?  You might be able 
to borrow some off female friends/family members for free :-)

Dai



Emyr Derfel 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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