Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 13:25:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: barney@databus.com (Barney Wolff) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: thermal grease? Message-ID: <200004151825.NAA17050@celery.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <38f8b28a0.3ca7@databus.databus.com> from "Barney Wolff" at Apr 15, 2000 02:15:00 PM
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> > 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. > Thanks in advance, > Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> In a pinch, a very very thin layer of silicon grease (the white kind) seems to work well. Too much is bad. all you want is enough to fill up the tiny cracks and texture of the proc's top and the bottom of the heat sink. Less is more. :) -- Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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