On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:56:37 +0000 (UTC) Meat Plow
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:35:11 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

ncidentally, I repaired a P4 motherboard yesterday which used Artic
Silver. My guess is that there was about 5 times as much Artic Silver
smeared over the CPU (and down the sides where it does nothing) as
necessary. The stuff down the sides was still fluid, so at $10 for 3.5
grams, I saved the excess.

Heh...reminds me of a previously repaired (not by me) QSC PLX series amp
I opened up and scraped about a pound of white paste out of it.

You sure that someone hadn't left their marshmallows in there?