What is this?

Post by **ToxicBug** » Mon May 21, 2007 3:30 am

What is this grey stuff around the core? Its my friend's CPU.

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon May 21, 2007 3:50 am

:icon28:

I'm thinking cheap thermal paste that melted and oozed all over the place (but it's a shit ton of the stuff, you never add that much)

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Mon May 21, 2007 3:51 am

The question is WTF is all that other crap on the chip???
I think you applied a bit to much paste.
And that grey chunk is probably just hardened paste.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Mon May 21, 2007 3:51 am

fucker

Post by **ToxicBug** » Mon May 21, 2007 4:19 am

I know how to apply thermal compound properly, but too bad my friend doesn't. Took me a while to clean that shit up, in the pics there's already a lot less compound than when I took off the HSF. And there was a ton on the heatsink itself, jesus christ.

Post by **zolborg** » Mon May 21, 2007 5:04 am

Don't be too surprised if the Motherboard is fried. All that thermal paste is bridging connections where they aren't supposed to be.

Post by **axbaby** » Mon May 21, 2007 6:53 am

looks like cheap thermal white non-conductive paste and artic silver conductive paste used at the same time.
the white crap isn't anything to worry about .. the grey stuff is the scary stuff

Post by **Grudge** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:25 am

lol, did he use the entire tube of thermal paste?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:32 am

lol, no wonder why your buddy "donated" it.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:19 pm

If you're having a hard time cleaning it, then use some rubbing alcohol.

Post by **zolborg** » Mon May 21, 2007 4:52 pm

FragaGeddon wrote:If you're having a hard time cleaning it, then use some rubbing alcohol.

, a chisel, hammer, and a high pressure fire hose.

Post by **ToxicBug** » Mon May 21, 2007 5:02 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:lol, no wonder why your buddy "donated" it.

its working fine, 40C idle, 52C load.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon May 21, 2007 5:23 pm

i was just talking about the mess he left behind.

Post by **Sanction** » Tue May 22, 2007 6:45 am

The grey is/was a thermal pad commonly placed on older processors. With Athlons, it was recommended to remove your heatsink, heat the thermal pad with a hairdryer [or something similar], clean with alcohol, then put on thermal paste. The rest of the pad most likely melted away from the high temps that cpu is known for.

Post by **Grudge** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:28 am

high temps? My XP2400+ idled around 35C and maxed out around 56-58C, even at 2.4GHz, that's not very hot

Compared to Intels Prescott, the Athlon XP was relatively cool

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Fri May 25, 2007 5:03 am

what core is that?

the polomono?
Throughbred?

Post by **shiv4** » Mon May 28, 2007 7:39 pm

Marshmallow?