[geeks] Heat sink on a P3

[Alois Hammer]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:39:22 -0500, "Phil Stracchino"
<alaric at metrocast.net> said:
> 
> I, too, recommend Arctic Alumina, for one overwhelming reason:  It 
> doesn't matter too much if a smear of it gets someplace it shouldn't, 
> because it's electrically non-conductive.  You don't have to fear 
> accidentally shorting something.

Well, yes, that's another excellent reason. :)  In /theory/, Arctic
Silver and the other metal-base products are sufficiently nonconductive
that they shouldn't cause problems.  At least, so I'm told.  But Alumina
works exactly as well as all the other "performance" goo and doesn't
cost any more, so there's no reason to take chances.