carbon based conductive grease

[IKeelU]

I just bought a tube of the stuff and my first attempt at unlocking my 1800+ has failed. Has anyone unlocked their athlon with carbon based (instead of silver-based) conductive grease?

 

[IKeelU]

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[KF]

Is this an old CPU? Recent ones are already unlocked.

What are you trying to do; get the higher multipliers?

 

[IKeelU]

It's a palomino core, so I need to unlock it to get higher multipliers (besides, I've tried upping them in my bios but my cpu still shows up as an 1800+ at the boot up screen).

I tried a second time but still no go. I'm pretty sure the grease isn't conductive enough. Using a multimeter, the probes have to be nearly touching for the resistance to approach 1k. According to Tom's the resistance needs to be lower than this. Oh well.

 

[Assimilator1]

Err ,you didn't mention if you had filled the pits ,have you?

Btw I wouldn't use any kind of grease if I were you ,it has a tendancy to spread (possibly leading to shorts!:Q) ,& in the longer run the surrounding dust & heat will leech the grease dry & lead to failed bridges.Use silver paint instead

Its nuts that some websites advocate grease!