batboy
02-24-01, 04:11 PM
I've read a couple tech articles concerning old worthless dried-up thermal paste and now am seeing first hand for myself. If you have an older CPU that you're trying to overclock and it has a heatsink that's been attached for more than a year, the thermal paste (if it even has any) is probably all dried up and no longer working. Take it apart and carefully clean the crusty stuff off the chip and sink. Use some new good thermal paste, and you just might be surprised how much better it will work and maybe overclock better. The thermal tape, that come on lots of heatsinks nowdays, is quick and easy, but don't work nearly as effective as a good paste. Just something to think about.