I've even seen a pad that won't conduct heat even after heated up and
thinned.  I always use Arctic silver, nothing else.

My opinion is, if there is a deadly fault that makes the name AMD bad, it is
its lack of overheat protection, and the retail AMD heatsink/fan is nothing
but failur.  One positive sign I see is, now AMD is heading to the right
direction, we've got new AMD cpus (only at low speed at the moment) come
with better quality heatsink/fan just from a few weeks ago.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] No display/Dead processor?
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>
> It seems that some of the pre-applied pads, act as more of an insulator
than
> a conductor, at least initially, til they've heated up and thinned out,
and
> if the motherboard has a thermal cutout in the BIOS, the processor can
heat
> up so fast that the PC won't start properly, but reboot continuously.
>

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