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09-10-2002, 02:58 PM
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Thermal Grease Bad?
Just a quick question. My less than genius friend decided to upgrade his cpu to an XP 2100+, but he had no idea what he was doing. He ended up putting the heatsink on without any thermal interface material. (This was after he put in a gf4 and it crashing the computer when he opened games). Anyway, I told him to buy some thermal grease. He went down to some local computer store and called back saying he bought a 300w psu (generic, after I suggested he get a sparkle because they are reliable and cheap, and stressing not to get generic), and thermal tape. Apparently the guy at the shop told him that thermal grease boils and fries your cpu, and he shouldn't get it.
So, is thermal grease bad, or is my friend exagerating, or was the guy at the shop wrong? TIA RenegadeKing
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09-10-2002, 03:08 PM
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The guy at the shop has no idea what he talking about.
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09-10-2002, 03:26 PM
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Thanx, that's what I thought. I told friend yesterday, but he's like "I've been going there for years and I trust the guy. He's never steered me wrong," so I couldn't talk any sense into him.
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09-10-2002, 03:28 PM
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Just wait until his CPU temps get to high and his mobo gets fried from the generic PSU he bought, then he'll listen to you.
 
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09-10-2002, 03:32 PM
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lol
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09-10-2002, 03:34 PM
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Tell him to take off the heatsink and sit on the CPU
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09-10-2002, 03:47 PM
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Re: Thermal Grease Bad?
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I've never heard of thermal compound "boiling" before (I've heard that some cheap compounds will become very thin and runny though). If a CPU fried, it's probably because this guy didn't install the heatsink properly. I'm not that surprised about the 300 watt generic PSU...one local shop here sells DEER PSU's to people looking to replace power supplies...ugh.  Cricket
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09-10-2002, 04:15 PM
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tell your friend that you enjoy being his friend and all, but your advice is no longer cheap (he seems like the type that'll buy that and sort of wastes money, too). tell him you'll charge him the next time he asks you for help, that way he might appreciate what you say a little better. it'll save him the frustration of a ruined rig thatnks to a faulty psu.
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09-10-2002, 04:22 PM
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He's bringing everything over here sometime this week. I'm gonna fix it all up nice for $25.
Also he agreed to return the generic psu and buy the Sparkle 300w from newegg, which is cheaper than how much the generic one cost.. Last edited by RenegadeKing; 09-10-2002 at 04:24 PM. |
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