REDCRESTEDCARDINAL wrote:

"Magic User" <magicuser@nowhere.com> wrote in message

Thanks guys, I just wanted to be sure before applying power.

Magic

Try Vegemite:)

http://dansdata.com/goop.htm

Man that site could make a fortune out of advertising, it must get heaps of
hits. I've been seeing the URL posted at least a couple of times a month in
various hardware groups over the years.
It's of passing interest as it shows that virtually any liquid will act well
as a heat conductor for a time. It's the time it lasts that's important,
that's why I don't use vegemite, honey, jism or water for that matter.

I spent $NZ25.00 on a 3 gram tube of Arctic Silver 3 (And incidently had a
problem once wiping the stuff off when fitting a new HSF, it made contact
with the other components on the top of the CPU and, even though it was
diluted with solvent, it stopped the CPU from booting until I removed it and
washed it in warm, soapy water)

Since then I was kindly given two 10ml tubes of Electrolube HTC (Heat
Transfer Compound, ref: HTC10S) by someone in the electronics field.

I just Googled HTC10S and found this:

http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=cache:POQDbHV-qOUJ:www.electrolube.com/prod
uct/techdata/eldata/htc.doc+HTC10S&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Reduced to: http://tinyurl.com/25jp9

Or you can use: http://www.electrolube.com/product/techdata/eldata/htc.doc.
if you want to read it in .doc format. (Link didn't work for me though.)

I now use this exculsively, I test each system and on systems where I've
replaced the AS3 with the Electrolube product I find no discernable
difference in temps with either compound.

I've got enough goop to do a couple of hundred CPUs now, thanks to a friend.
I use it on my Athlon XP1800+ (JIUHB) running a 10.5 multiplier on a 200MHz
FSB for 2.1GHz @ 1.825vcore and it runs at *exactly* the same temp it ran at
with AS3.
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~misfit~