On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: > As for the thermal compound: I use "Arctic Silver III" and its quite > good, > kept my CPUs in my MDD Dual-1GHz even cooler than the original > compound from > Apple. On the other hand the original compound was a few years old > already, > and the Arctic Silver III was new... > > You may choose any thermal compound, just make sure it is suitable > for the > aluminium heat sink of the QuickSilver.
This recent article says that homemade diamond compound is 19 degrees Celsius (66 degrees Fahrenheit) cooler than Arctic Silver on a fully max'd out CPU: <http://inventgeek.com/Projects/DiamondGrease/overview.aspx> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
