From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Apr 16 19:33:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E200337B80B for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:33:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA22304; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:33:05 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Barney Wolff Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: thermal grease? Message-ID: <20000416193305.A16979@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <38f8b28a0.3ca7@databus.databus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <38f8b28a0.3ca7@databus.databus.com>; from barney@databus.com on Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 02:15:00PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 02:15:00PM -0400, Barney Wolff wrote: > Would some kind soul give me a hint on where to acquire the thermal > grease that everybody says must be placed between the cpu and its > heat-sink/fan? The cheap parts places I deal with don't seem to > carry it, nor does my local CompUSA, nor Radio Shack, nor computer store. > All of them seem to just clip the fan to the chip and hope for the best. Lots of places should have it, but you can get small quantaties (though far more then you need) from PC Power and Cooling at http://www.pcpowercooling.com/ -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message