One for the "Oh, bugger" file

[unixronin]

whitestar's been spontaneously powering itself off since yesterday evening.  Having swapped out the power cord without success (on the speculation of a broken core in the power cord due to bending), I speculated that it was a CPU thermal problem, so I took the heatsink fan off to clean the top of the heatsink and (as I more than half expected) found it clogged with dust.

So I've removed and thoroughly cleaned the heatsink, I go to put it back on, and guess what . . . I can't find my heatsink thermal compound.

YO, MURPHY!  OFFA MY CASE!

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Dynaflow?

Right now, whitestar has a ThermalTake Volcano 7+, and babylon5 has the AMD-branded heatsink/fan that came with the CPU.

I saw a very interesting CPU heatsink yesterday ... a sort of bowl or flower of hundreds of little tiny thin vanes that must have been eight inches across, about half of them copper (why only half I don't know), with a 120mm unshrouded fan sitting in the middle. Looks like it would provide very gtood cooling, and according to the guys at the new Intrex store where I saw it (YAY! GREENVILLE HAS A COMPUTER STORE AT LAST!), it's very quiet.
They call it "the hovercraft" .... I guess they've never heard a hovercraft in operation. ;)