From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 26 16:51:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8572A37B54B for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:51:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e6QNpQm09297; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:51:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Haikal Saadh Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quiet cpu fans In-Reply-To: <002301bff7ea$64fa5ac0$a3a593cb@timberwolf> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Haikal Saadh wrote: > While were on this topic, I'd also like to ask: > > Is it necessary to use thermal grease when attaching a heatsink on > nowdays? It is highly recommended that you put some thermal grease between the CPU and the heatsink surface. The thermal grease helps increase the heat transfer between the two surfaces but closing any gaps and my slightly increasing the surface area. Just don't use too much. // Linh Pham // http://closedsrc.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message