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Originally posted by utabintarbo
I thought you people spoke English down there! 
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LOL - it's actually derived from an old Scottish word, apparantly.
Well I got some graphite powder, and made up a paste, but didn't do ahead with it.
The graphite is not micronised enough. Sure it looks really fine to the eye, but it spreaded horribly on the CPU, and clumped together, and when on the super smooth surface of the CPU die, you could actually see each individual granule, and it was really "gritty" on a dry-mount.
I didn't have the balls to flip the power switch and potentially fry the CPU, it was that bad.
As a side thing though, I did try using some petroleum jelly (vaseline) as a thermal paste while I had the CPU out. I know it wouldn't last for long, but I was curious to try it.
Turns out to be bad news though. Well, not
bad, but not good. Worked out to be about 3C worse than AS3 under load (T'bred B @ 2400MHz/1.85v running BurnK7).
Well I guess that shoots both the graphite and vaseline ideas in the foot.