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  • stj
    Great Sage 齊天大聖
    • Dec 2009
    • 30937
    • Albion

    #1

    how NOT to apply thermal compound!

    sometimes you get something memorable!
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  • 3d0
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2014
    • 159
    • BiH

    #2
    Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

    That's a piece of art if you ask me. LOL

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    • SteveNielsen
      Retired Tech
      • Jun 2012
      • 2327
      • USA

      #3
      Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

      It's the Three Wise Men surrounded by angels.

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      • stj
        Great Sage 齊天大聖
        • Dec 2009
        • 30937
        • Albion

        #4
        Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

        i had a pair on a dual-cpu motherboard.
        it was so thick that the heatsinks never touched the silicon!

        and it's just standard silicon-grease - so it dried like cement!

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        • Topcat
          The Boss Stooge
          • Oct 2003
          • 16955
          • United States

          #5
          Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

          put it on ebay, I swear Jesus's face is embedded in the goop...I'd swear to that!! Ok, maybe I don't see it, but say it any way....some dumbshit is bound to pay 10-grand for that CPU!
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          • goodpsusearch
            Badcaps Legend
            • Oct 2009
            • 2848
            • Greece

            #6
            Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

            The AMD is ok?

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            • c_hegge
              Badcaps Legend
              • Sep 2009
              • 5219
              • Australia

              #7
              Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

              At least that's not Arctic Silver or something conductive
              I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

              No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

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              • stj
                Great Sage 齊天大聖
                • Dec 2009
                • 30937
                • Albion

                #8
                Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

                athlon 2400MP - a pretty expensive cpu for some asshole to just treat like that!

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                • Agent24
                  I see dead caps
                  • Oct 2007
                  • 4914
                  • New Zealand

                  #9
                  Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

                  My first ever PC build was a bit like that... AMD Duron 1.3GHz and I thought more paste was better.. wondered why the thing always ran hot...

                  At least I knew it only had to go on the die though!
                  "Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
                  -David VanHorn

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                  • lezsimply
                    The Wanderer
                    • Jan 2013
                    • 645
                    • Philippines

                    #10
                    Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

                    Will an old 40MB western digital still have value today?

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                    • sidgallup
                      Member
                      • May 2014
                      • 13
                      • mexico

                      #11
                      Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

                      Originally posted by lezsimply
                      Will an old 40MB western digital still have value today?
                      only if its an old drive from an FBI computer with the names of all reptilians living among us, and the name of JFK assassins.

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                      • stj
                        Great Sage 齊天大聖
                        • Dec 2009
                        • 30937
                        • Albion

                        #12
                        Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

                        you can identify reptilians, they hang around radiators and you never see them in the winter!

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                        • lti
                          Badcaps Legend
                          • May 2011
                          • 2545
                          • United States

                          #13
                          Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

                          HP did this in my old laptop. The thermal pad doesn't touch anything.

                          I added some crappy paste between the "heatsink" and the metal block on the right that cools an inductor. They did the same thing that they did here. There was a thermal pad next to that block that was not touching anything.
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                          • momaka
                            master hoarder
                            • May 2008
                            • 12164
                            • Bulgaria

                            #14
                            Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

                            Originally posted by stj
                            sometimes you get something memorable!
                            I've seen something similar on a Pentium 4 chip (though not as memorable for sure). Of course, with the Pentium 4, you have a heat spreader so it doesn't look as bad. Nonetheless, it was, because there was a ton of leftover paste on the side of the CPU and the heatsink. The paste looked at least 1 mm thick. No wonder the CPU fan was all over the place (the motherboard was a P4SD out of a HP DC5000 - and they do actually have fan speed control).

                            By the way, sorry for reviving a thread like this. I wanted to reply to this when it was still fresh but didn't have time due to exams and now I'm going through my bookmarks and finding a few others I haven't replied to.

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                            • Uranium-235
                              Comrade Glimmer
                              • Aug 2007
                              • 5042
                              • US

                              #15
                              Re: how NOT to apply thermal compound!

                              thats not thermal stuff, I just got too excited about the processor
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