Quake3World

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

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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)

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.

fucker

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

i was just talking about the mess he left behind.

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.

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

what core is that?

the polomono?
Throughbred?

Marshmallow?