Bicycle bearing grease as TIM
Bicycle bearing grease as TIM
Sounds like your local version is El Cheapo. Aim for Arctic Silver 5, or if you're after the best, check out Shin Etsu.
yes. you wouldn't even need to go back in to replace it, like you would if you used mayonnaise & didn't want your computer to attract flies.
it may not work great, but it fills the air gaps, and as long as there is good pressure between the CPU lid and the bottom of the heat sink, it'll work.
of course it would be best to just use a little so you don't get crud on the motherboard.
when you say bearing grease are you referring to the stuff you use if you re-pack a hub on a wheel or the crank axle ?
Raviolissimo :
yes. you wouldn't even need to go back in to replace it, like you would if you used mayonnaise & didn't want your computer to attract flies.
it may not work great, but it fills the air gaps, and as long as there is good pressure between the CPU lid and the bottom of the heat sink, it'll work.
of course it would be best to just use a little so you don't get crud on the motherboard.
when you say bearing grease are you referring to the stuff you use if you re-pack a hub on a wheel or the crank axle ?
Good point, I'm hoping he's refering to the middleweight grease you'd use to repack a crank. Clamp pressure usually squeezes the stuff out thin enough to see through. It never really dries completely and a thin layer of it does work well. When it is fully "cooked" it has a wax-like consistency, kind of like the black TIM Intel used on its older processors.
Toms wrote an article about this, stating that toothpaste is most effective without thermal paste.