[CLUE-Tech] System is Back

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On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 12:06:55 -0700
"Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com> wrote:

> Somebody was wondering about the Athlon having plastic between the
> heatsink and the CPU. I've never heard of that, and I haven't pulled the
> stock heatsink off. I don't recall any of the overclocker sites mentioning
> it, nor any particular difficulties in sticking a thermaltake or some
> other cooler on an Athlon. A friend of mine mentioned he'd heard that
> there's a sort of varnish type coating on top of the CPU, and if you
> scratch it, your CPU will be dead.

That piece of plastic is either thermal grease compound or a peel off strip covering thermal grease. It is supposed to improve thermal coupling between processor and heatsink. Get rid of heat quicker.

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