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Originally posted by novacain
You mean the white stuff that you smear on the CPU or the CPU's outer case?
White stuff -> No
CPU's outer case -> will atuo off if too hot. So if it turns itself off without warning and won't come back on for a while, then restarts normally, Yes.
as a test i let the computer run the seti@home thing (intensive computing) for about 4 hours and the cpu temp only raised from 40C to 48C and the max temp is like 75C. I'm thinking that everything should be ok but as a necessary precaution i still would lid to replace this damaged thermal interface material. do you know how i could do this? I hear this is some gooey stuff i can just apply to the cpu surface or something like that?