On 13 Oct 2011, at 10:28, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > After replacing the paste and cleaning the heat sink/fan, the PC ran > OK for another year or two until the motherboard truely failed, so a > replaced the PC.
I did similar 2 weekends back (used TIM cleaner to remove the old CPU/Heatsink paste and added Arctic Silver 5 in it's place) and the idle processor temperature in the BIOS has dropped by 15oC (!!) The computer no longer restarts without someone requesting it do so :) -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
