My CPU – hot. My paste – delivered. My PC – fixed
My PC is now up and running properly at the correct temperature, idling away at 46C in a 25C room. I didn’t need a new heat sink or fan, a new CPU or indeed a whole new PC. Just a fivers worth of heat conducting gel.
This little laboratory setup consists of some Isopropyl Alcohol (thanks Kerry), my Athlon Barton 2800XP+ CPU (the bit that was getting too hot), some Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound in a little injection tube and a big heat sink with a copper bottom. Believe it or not, but by adding these ingredients together in the correct fashion and then putting a the heat sink fan back on top I no longer need to keep my computer up high with it’s side panels removed.
The job took about 20 minutes which isn’t bad as it’s the first time I’ve ever removed a CPU from it’s socket. I do offer a resonable hardware fixing service so give us a shout next time your PC plays up!
this all seems very confusing. My computer doesnt need paste
Your laptop needs all the paste it can get. You just can’t open it up and find it as you’ll invalidate your precious Mac warranty. So there!!!!
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