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Thread ID: 50920 2004-11-06 02:55:00 Dead Barton 2800+ HadO (796) Press F1
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288496 2004-11-07 00:03:00 The actual contact area between the core and the heatsink where the paste is applied is only paper thin when the heatsink is on though... HadO (796)
288497 2004-11-07 00:29:00 and how thick is a sheet of paper?

You want a thin film of quality paste,not a thick layer of gunk....
metla (154)
288498 2004-11-07 00:33:00 The important fact to take into account here was that the cpu's temp was slowly skyrocketing before I even applied the new layer of paste...

That alone seems to indicate to me that there was a fault with it - I have also had some POSTing issues with it in the past which I thought was RAM related...
HadO (796)
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