AS5 substitute

[xavier es]

I started shoot the bull with a guy in line at the grocery store today, got on the subject of computer hardware and this guy claims that he read you can use auto anti-seize compound, the kind for head gaskets and brake caliper pins as TIM.
anyone hear this before or believe it?

 

[PCTC2]

well, you could in a jam probably because it's similar to AS5 with fine metal particles in suspension, but I wouldn't . it has a bunch of other stuff in there. I'd just stick to TIM made for computers.

 

[Zap]

You can use just about anything that fills the gap, as long as there isn't too much of it and it makes contact. You can even use WATER as a thermal compound... until it dries.

interesting read

 

[yh125d]

Vegemite is my TIM of choice

 

[AmberClad]

Someone was joking around about using cake to clean their CPU with a few days ago...and I started wondering how frosting would do as TIM. What the melting point of sugar anyway? Can you say caramel ?

 

[Billb2]

Bacon?

 

[Rubycon]

In a bind there's a lot of things that can be used as a TIM effective enough to run your system. The main design of a good TIM is stability over time. If the agent dries out temperatures will increase, for example.