Basic build question

[Matt Silberstein]

I have not built a PC for several years. Thermal paste, for example,
is new to me. Is there a good (on-line preferred) source to catch me
up on what to do and care about? I really don't know why I have
decided to do this again, but I might as well do it right.


TIA


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[Ed Light]

Check out Ceramique at arcticsilver.com, and read the instructions for it. A
small tube is $5 and it's the easiest to put on and remove, and works great.

Some will answer saying it is a scam and no better than toothpaste. Just
ignore them.
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[Bill]

Check out Ceramique at arcticsilver.com, and read the instructions for it. A
small tube is $5 and it's the easiest to put on and remove, and works great.

Some will answer saying it is a scam and no better than toothpaste. Just
ignore them.

And some might elude to using 30 year old gear grease, to which I say
" Hell, why not just get a bucket of KFC and while your munching, wipe
one of those wings across the bottom of the heat sink and the top of
the processor and slap those puppies together. Then when it heats up,
it'll at least smell like a bucket of the Colonels Finest instead of an
old wheel bearing." ]8^)

Bill < G,D,&R >

 

[Wes Newell]

I have not built a PC for several years. Thermal paste, for example,
is new to me. Is there a good (on-line preferred) source to catch me
up on what to do and care about? I really don't know why I have
decided to do this again, but I might as well do it right.

I'm using 30 year old wheel bearing grease. Works just as good if not
better than the expensive stuff. And it has advantages, like easy to
remove. You'll see a lot of hype about dfiiferent brands, etc., but that's
all it is. In the end they'll all perform about the same if properly
installed. Personally, I wouldn't touch one that you have to scrap and use
some sort of cleaning fluid to get off. This pretty much says it all.

http://www.dansdata.com/goop.htm

 

[Wes Newell]

Check out Ceramique at arcticsilver.com, and read the instructions for it. A
small tube is $5 and it's the easiest to put on and remove, and works great.

Some will answer saying it is a scam and no better than toothpaste. Just
ignore them.

Give me your address Ed and I'll send you some of my old grease and you
can compare them yourself.
Or, send me some Ceramique and I'll do it, if you swear it can just be
wiped off with a rag. I'm cerainly not going to buy any though with still
at least a half pound of wheel bearing grease in the garrage.

 

[Wes Newell]

Check out Ceramique at arcticsilver.com, and read the instructions for it. A
small tube is $5 and it's the easiest to put on and remove, and works great.

Some will answer saying it is a scam and no better than toothpaste. Just
ignore them.

And some might elude to using 30 year old gear grease, to which I say
" Hell, why not just get a bucket of KFC and while your munching, wipe
one of those wings across the bottom of the heat sink and the top of
the processor and slap those puppies together. Then when it heats up,
it'll at least smell like a bucket of the Colonels Finest instead of an
old wheel bearing." ]8^)

Bill < G,D,&R >

Wheel bearing grease is made for extreme temp conditions with an extremely
high flash point. It also doesn't contain animal fats or salts, or a
little jalpeno juice if the chicken's the way I like it.

 

[Ed Light]

Give me your address Ed and I'll send you some of my old grease and you
can compare them yourself.
Or, send me some Ceramique and I'll do it, if you swear it can just be
wiped off with a rag. I'm cerainly not going to buy any though with still
at least a half pound of wheel bearing grease in the garrage.

Thanks, Wes.

I won't be swapping cpu's for a long time, so can't try the grease.

And I've only got one little $5 tube of Ceramique, which should last forever
unless it somehow dries up in there.

It comes right off, then I finish up with a q-tip and 99% isopropyl just to
remove any residues.

The best part is you don't have to spread it. You put on a dot, or a stripe
if the cpu isn't square, then it squishes out and you wiggle the hsf 2
degrees each way one time to mush it in.

If going your direction, I'd be inclined to try high temp disk brake grease.
I used to run a semi tractor picking up lots of dried up trailers which
would suck the grease off my 5th wheel. I put that stuff on and it wouldn't
go away with the trailers. Nice clingy stuff.


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[Ed Light]

BTW We can't go sacrificing poor old chickens to our pc's!

How about grizzly bears?
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[Bill]

BTW We can't go sacrificing poor old chickens to our pc's!

Actually, that was standard practice years ago to set up a scsi card.

These young whippersnappers have got it too easy. Somedays I'd have to
shake a dead chicken at a pc after walking ten miles, uphill, in the
snow, both ways.

How about grizzly bears?

Haven't had enough 'Nog to take a switch to a grizzly bear.


Yet.

Bill

 

[Bill]

Check out Ceramique at arcticsilver.com, and read the instructions for it. A
small tube is $5 and it's the easiest to put on and remove, and works great.

Some will answer saying it is a scam and no better than toothpaste. Just
ignore them.

And some might elude to using 30 year old gear grease, to which I say
" Hell, why not just get a bucket of KFC and while your munching, wipe
one of those wings across the bottom of the heat sink and the top of
the processor and slap those puppies together. Then when it heats up,
it'll at least smell like a bucket of the Colonels Finest instead of an
old wheel bearing." ]8^)

Bill < G,D,&R >

Wheel bearing grease is made for extreme temp conditions with an extremely
high flash point. It also doesn't contain animal fats or salts, or a
little jalpeno juice if the chicken's the way I like it.

Well cooking oil can take more heat than the processor can. At the
moment though I have 10 lbs of jalapeno teryaki beef jerky in the
smoker making the neighbors nuts. Since KFC is closed at this time,
I'll guess I'll have to try some of the drippings on my hsf. They
spread easy and they're a snap to clean off. Just put the hsf/processor
in front of one of the dogs and slurp, clean and shiny.

Bill

 

[Andrew MacPherson]

And it has advantages, like easy to remove.

I reverted to cheap & cheerful thermal compound (no
experiments with stuff out of the garden shed though ;-)
after trying arctic silver. I'm sure it's good stuff, but
it's a *real* pain to clean off (semi-solidifies) when you
want to mess about with your CPU.

Andrew McP

 

[Matt Silberstein]

Actually, that was standard practice years ago to set up a scsi card.

It was a goat and there are very good technical reasons why that
worked.

These young whippersnappers have got it too easy. Somedays I'd have to
shake a dead chicken at a pc after walking ten miles, uphill, in the
snow, both ways.


Haven't had enough 'Nog to take a switch to a grizzly bear.


Yet.

You will once. At most.


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