[Noisebridge-discuss] To hack or to punt? Trying to revive my Quad-core server.

[Jonathan Foote]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Ken Adler <ken.adler at gmail.com> wrote:

> I found this howto upgrade the chip.... my question is how critical is
> putting the thermal paste between the CPU cover and heatsink?   don't have
> any "thermal paste" around the house and am sort of getting the immediate
> gratification thing going on  :-)


Would not recommend leaving it out: it's absolutely there for a
reason, and you risk frying your chips otherwise.
I've seen several tubes on the electronics shelves.