Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 02:13:26 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPU heatsinks Message-ID: <199611141013.CAA16059@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 13 Nov 96 22:11:38 -0500. <Pine.OSF.3.95.961113220729.7822B-100000@downlink.eng.umd.edu>
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>I was messing around with my new motherboard, getting it into the new
>case, and one of the two heatsinks popped off. Understand it's a dual
>Pentium Pro system, with heat sinks definitely larger than the old
>Pentiums. I noticed on taking a very, very careful closer look, that the
>heatsinks had been installed sans the usual white silicone heatsink
>compound, which I have on hand (having used on previous systems). Is
>there some reason on the PPro that the silicone hadn't been applied, or
>should I neatly smear some on?
I haven't seen a vendor yet who *does* put the silicone grease on for
you. My Pentium and Pentium Pro certainly didn't come that way. I
added it myself, after the fact.
I really wouldn't want to run it without the grease, however.
Especially if a fan were to die. I actually had my Pentium 100,
overclocked to 120, run for a couple days straight with a dead fan
that I didn't know about. Got a couple crashes and didn't know why.
Opened the case, and the fan is just quivering back and forth. After
a new fan, the machine has been running perfectly at 120MHz for
several more months.
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