Ad to quote a certain dead grunge rocker for the second time this evening - "I like it, I'm not gonna crack" <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Ribe</b> <<a href="mailto:chrisribe@gmail.com">
chrisribe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Brian, <br>
I appreciate the experience and knowledge you bring to the
community, and your I will take your advice to heart, but right now I'm
just trying to find out if I have a problem at all. <br>
<br>
There is a certain risk to the equipment involved in pulling my
computer out of the closet it is buried in, pulling the motherboard out
of the computer, removing the heatsink, and putting the whole thing
back together again. I'd rather not go through that process at
this point. <br>
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The mystery lube is lithium grease originally intended for use on squeky door hinges. <br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
beww@beww.org
</a>> wrote:</span></span><div><span class="e" id="q_109144eee37a7c92_2"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>On Jan 28, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Chris Ribe wrote:
<br><br>> Alright, first of all, I didn't just save a dollar. The cheapest
<br>> newegg can hook me up for is $7 shipped, and it wouldn't be here<br>> for at least another 6 days.<br>><br>> Additionally, my system has been running for 3 week and endured<br>> several marathon transode sessions without turning into an
<br>> "expensive key fob."<br>><br>> Of course, whether I found the miracle substitute for thermal<br>> grease, or the smart folks at intel have just managed to save me<br>> from myself is the question I am trying to answer.
<br>><br>> It's not like thermal grease needs to be any magic solution to its<br>> job. It just needs to outperform air by an order of magnitude or<br>> so. Well, just about anything meets that criteria.<br>
><br><br>Well think that way if you wish, it's not my CPU. You might save even<br>more by eliminating the heatsink/fan as well :-)<br><br>I'm just trying to give you advice gleaned from many decades of<br>working in electronics, and save you some grief. I think the subject
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