I think someone used too much thermal paste

Duke · 9 Feb 2008 at 12:08

Was upgrading a system when I came across this under the heatsink :eek:

Somewhere under all that paste is an AthlonXP!

bikes · 9 Feb 2008 at 12:19

Lol

Do you think they was trying to drown it.

sargatanas · 9 Feb 2008 at 12:19

Tell him to coat the whole motherboard while he's at it

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killersheep34 · 9 Feb 2008 at 12:21

Good job that ain't artic silver... POP! lol

VaderDSL · 9 Feb 2008 at 12:26

oh deary me! hehe, i remember the good old days with the XPs

MeatLoaf · 9 Feb 2008 at 14:24

LOL, looks like they forgot to put some on the actual core

Monkeynut · 9 Feb 2008 at 15:03

Why do I look at that and think "8600GT man"?

IAmATeaf · 9 Feb 2008 at 16:11

LOL that white goo gets everywhere

allllec · 9 Feb 2008 at 16:16

Lucky that wasn't conductive! although could have ended up with an unlocked chip

AtreuS · 9 Feb 2008 at 19:12

Brings back memories. When i worked in the returns of a manchester based reseller we used to get 4 or 5 of them a week.

"apply an even and generous coat of heatsink compound over the whole core of the cpu before attaching the heatsink".... ten guesses what they thought "core" meant!

99% of them did a really careful job of coating the entire chip ( except the core ) with paste and then brought them back saying "i followed the instructions very carefully but the cpu still overheated!" i kid you not. :eek:

mattyrigby00 · 9 Feb 2008 at 19:15

it was jacob billing!

psychas · 9 Feb 2008 at 19:25

wtf were is the cpu ? omg all tube of thermal paste probably

AgedIdiot · 9 Feb 2008 at 21:40

I assume as it's an upgrade that it was working o'k

Makes me wonder if I spend too much time trying to do it right

w3bbo · 9 Feb 2008 at 21:54

WTF did he use to put the paste on with, a butter knife? :eek:

RaiderX · 11 Feb 2008 at 00:40

lol, must have atleast 2 tubes on there, unless it was a really big tube

MikeHunt79 · 11 Feb 2008 at 01:02

RaiderX said:
lol, must have atleast 2 tubes on there, unless it was a really big tube

You can get 50g tubes - you use a lot when making audio amps...

That pic needs a "fail" caption.

Duke · 11 Feb 2008 at 07:48

FuhhQ · 11 Feb 2008 at 09:51

just what I needed to see on a monday morning

cheers for that, made my day

Shrapnel · 11 Feb 2008 at 14:27

I'm trying to trouble solve a XP2800+ problem. Pulled off the gigabyte heat-sink and it pulled the CPU out of the socket with it. There must have been a whole tube on there. It had all p155ed out the sides after it was clamped.

"one and a half grains of rice" it says on the website...

Some people :eyes:

domyboy · 12 Feb 2008 at 17:26

rofl and i thought i was generous with the thermal paste