found something to use as heatsink compound
 

Toothpaste!
It works! my computer has been running at 550Mhz for acouple days without restarting on its own under full load!!

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Sweat, thanks for the update.

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a minty fresh compound, now the computer can smell good as well as being crash-free, good deal!

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I wonder if the tiny ground up coral in toothpaste is acting as a heat transferer.?

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Interesting. Does it get all crusty?

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Yeah, i would think after a while, the toothpaste would become old as eventually form into power substance, disinigrating off as it fell... you'd probably just have to recoat it every few weeks or something

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I'll be keeping the toothpaste off of my Athlon for now but maybe on my K6-2

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Now I never want to stifle experimentation, but I feel that I'll stick with my Arctic Silver 3.  $6.00-7.00 for enough to do about a years worth of CPU's that cost hundreds.

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Agreed but I would like to hear how it works out. Thats pretty interesting. i would like to have pics of that and specs to put on the web site.

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Yeah, same for me. I wanna know how much the temperature increased when it went on. One thing that should work well is ball-bearing grease. But like rivergod, I won't try that, $6 is worth Arctic Silver.

On a side note: Cheapo should set up an account as he has posted quite often for a guest.