Silicone paste

[Nickles36]

Well my KT-7a Raid/T-Bird came in today and the first thing I did was remove the heatsink to see if the L1 bridges were open which they were. I have spent the last few hours looking for some rear-window defogger paint to connect the L1 bridges and can't find any in this darn town. I guess I will have to wait to overclock this baby. <g> I now what some are going to say and no.. I'm not going to use the pencil trick, because I want this to last. I could order the conductive pencil but that would take another week.

My question is... I noticed that they used some tape or something as a heatsink compound that looks like it melted or formed around the core. It doesn't look like I will be able to salvage it or I'm afraid to use it again. Since I repair TV's and Stereo's I have plenty of silicon lying around and since I'm not going to overclock for awhile would it hurt to use the paste ?

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Its okay, but keep an eye in case it dries out on you.

Silicon grease has a nasty tendancy to dry out in high-heat/high clip pressure uses on socket-a chips.


Mike

 

[bacillus]

if the silicon paste you refer to is normally used as a heat transfer compound then it should be ok temporarily. best to use some high quality stuff like arctic silver though, especially with an AMD heat producing baby!

 

[bigshooter]

I normally eat the silicon paste.

 

[jamarno]

All grease dries out, even Krytox, but if the problem was excessive with silicone grease, then my stereo amp built in the 1970s would have burned up by now.

My guess is that far more of you worry about CPU cooling than about voltage regulator cooling.