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don't know about ACII and your HSF. But I just did it to the Volcano II w/ 150 followed by 300 grit. It surprised me by lowering cpu temp on the 1.2 Athlon by 4c on full load w/ Radio Shack's thermal compound. The cpu runs around 40c regular load and 33c idle now, that's 5-6c lower than before...

I got 256MB DDR from Crucial for $45 free shipping, can't beat that. Plus DDR gives 133MHz throughout the system - good for gaming and photoshop. If he doesn't want to spend too much money upgrading to a AMD761- based MB, say, Epox 8K7A+, and he's not considering overclocking then go for the...

sanded the bottom of Volcano II HSF because I thought it would help thermal compound to "sink" in without being pushed around cpu chip. It immediately lowers the temp by 4C.