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Heatsink with no thermal paste / grease

meltdown75

meltdown75

Lifer
Hi all, I had a fairly straightforward question for anyone who might know.

I'm planning on putting my old parts together to create a spare computer for diagnosing hard drives and other components should they be acting up.

My CPU is a Duron 900 Spitfire which includes the AMD stock heatsink & fan.

My question is - will a lack of thermal transfer material between the heatsink & cpu core cause immediate problems? I'm not going to have this computer on much, and won't be doing any overclocking or anything of that sort. I'm just planning on using it as sort of a "test bed".

Thanks in advance for your time.

- Melty
 
Umm...dont do it... Why would you try to install it w/o grease anyway... the CPU will most likely fry or the computer will crash cuz your not making good contact with the heatsink and CPU. both the CPU die and the heatsink have little imperfections and the thermal grease fills those little imperfections so just use grease...
 
Right... thanks Clindst. It was a pretty dumb idea but was only going to be a temp solution until I picked some up. Just looking for something cheap but reliable, not necessarily AS5. Shipped to Canada would be a bonus. 🙂

so the cpu would fry eh. ok. its just an old duron but it has plenty of life left in it 😉
 
I like your attitude 🙂 most people these days replace or abandon their CPU before it even begins to near the end of its life span.
 
I used a Barton 2500+ w/o any pad or grease for a few days and surprisingly it ran fine. I wouldn't recommend it but to answer your question no it didn't fry.
 
Originally posted by: stardust
I like your attitude 🙂 most people these days replace or abandon their CPU before it even begins to near the end of its life span.
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Yeah. Well, I recently upgraded slightly to the XP 2700 on an Asus mobo. Everything has been great, but since I have the old parts kickin around, I might as well put another system together. Hopefully I get one of those (kvm?) switches so I can control 2 computers with 1 mouse & keyboard. That old proc with my old Geforce 2 card isn't really that bad of a performer. I played bf1942 online for a couple years with that configuration - definitely stretching its limits but if you play on low settings it runs like a champ. that proc can also be OC'd to 1000mhz without even as much as a hiccup and barely any temp difference with stock cooling.

Anyway I'm going to pick up some cheap thermal something for the mean time for this fun little (re)build.
 
I'm all about the old comps... my pal and I have consolidated our seperate offerings to find we ave between us...
Celly 333 / 500 (The chip says 333, but BIOS and Windows both say 500)
PII 450
PIII 667
Duron 1000
T-Bred B 1400 (I Think)
Barton 2500

We are fresh out of Socket A mobos and have 1 power supply or we would be all over making a Beowulf cluster... mmmm beowulf.... That Celly 500 ran Prime for 51 hours no probs and that was while running a Cal of Duty Ded. Server...
 
Well anyway I picked up some "Cooler Paste" 🙂 and put it on my main cpu... all is well. Dropped maybe 2C at both idle & load. Just about what I was expecting... well thanks for the opinions on the old proc but looks like i have enough of this stuff to last me for about 15 more cpus. peace!

- melty
 
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