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Hi everyone!
I should be receiving a new processor soon, and unfortunately, I have no extra thermal grease laying around... At all.
So I decided to make my own, just something to sit in for a week or 2 until I can get some IC Diamond or AS5.
Just looking around my house I found 2 pretty obvious picks. White Lithium Grease and Copper. Lithium Grease repels water, doesn't run when hot, it a decent conductor of heat, has dielectric properties and is non-corrosive. It also lasts a long time without drying out.
Copper is obviously a great conductor of heat, (just barely worse than silver) and should work pretty well.
I filled down some stranded copper wire I had laying around into a very fine dust, and then mixed it with the WLG to get a brown paste that feels very smooth to the touch, not abrasive at all. I figure that as long as I only apply a little, I won't risk shorting out anything due to copper's electrical conductivity properties.
Do you guys think I will run into any problems? Obviously my temps won't be optimal, but I think this should work better than nothing. Please vote and let me know what to do
If you have any other ideas please comment.
-Dtfgator
Edited by dtfgator - 1/12/12 at 8:18pm
Hi everyone!
I should be receiving a new processor soon, and unfortunately, I have no extra thermal grease laying around... At all.
So I decided to make my own, just something to sit in for a week or 2 until I can get some IC Diamond or AS5.
Just looking around my house I found 2 pretty obvious picks. White Lithium Grease and Copper. Lithium Grease repels water, doesn't run when hot, it a decent conductor of heat, has dielectric properties and is non-corrosive. It also lasts a long time without drying out.
Copper is obviously a great conductor of heat, (just barely worse than silver) and should work pretty well.
I filled down some stranded copper wire I had laying around into a very fine dust, and then mixed it with the WLG to get a brown paste that feels very smooth to the touch, not abrasive at all. I figure that as long as I only apply a little, I won't risk shorting out anything due to copper's electrical conductivity properties.
Do you guys think I will run into any problems? Obviously my temps won't be optimal, but I think this should work better than nothing. Please vote and let me know what to do
If you have any other ideas please comment.-Dtfgator
Edited by dtfgator - 1/12/12 at 8:18pm
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| Hard Drive | Optical Drive | Cooling | OS |
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