Page 5 - Homemade THERMAL COMPOUND

How about Aluminum Anti-sieze compound.

Ya'll aren't the only ones with the idea of $1 vaseline though. I bet if you don't put a huge glob on there like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, it won't go anywhere unless you are trying to catch your PC on fire.

I have some thick chilie paste that if it can conduct 1/100 of the heat it generates it would make a great heatsick... I mean heatsink


Good part is; it is not toxic so you can slap in on and lick any excess off, just don't get in on your lips or eyes

Maybe we can devise a way to put it to use as a micro nuclear power plant for our computers

Well, I started pondering this subject when I saw Snod Blatter's response with "needs proper testing."

So, I attempted to test it. I used a few different things around the house here, but the combination that seemed to work the best was Pepto Bismol and baby powder. Mixed it into a taffy-like substance and put a dab on my CPU and reattached the heat-sink.

I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on the machine, ran all of the updates, and even fork-bombed the system to see what the processor would do. The system crashed, but the processor never overheated. Hit the reset button and went the the bios. CPU temp: 41C. After everything, it barely went over 40C. I think this is a pretty good solution, although I'm still going to put legitimate thermal compound on it.

If you're in a bind, I think this would be a great temporary solution.

CPU is a Althlon XP 2400+.

Excellent work

What other things did you test and what temperatures did they give you? And what temperature does normal thermal paste give?

Shame there are so many closed-minded people on here, this could've been a really interesting thread. Oh well..

Yeah, it would be much the same deal as regular paste, just a bb size blob, spread it or squeeze it out. The burn in time on it would be nearly instant. If you get the good stuff with a high distillation rating, looks white as opposed to the cheap yellow stuff' its flash point is really high. No flames.

But that's simply recapping things already covered.