Can Thermal Paste be cause of noxious fumes?

[Nitrom]

I just finished to build a computer. I have an Athlon XP 2800+(OEM) assembled on top of a CHAINTECH 7NIL1 SUMMIT mobo with a Thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12 heatsink and fan.

I used ARTIC SILVER Polysynthetic on the CPU.

After first power up I can smell noxious fumes coming out of the computer. I suspect it may be the thermal compound even tho operating temps show seem to be normal. ABout 43 C for the processor and 32C. for the motherboard under certain amount of load.

However I noticed that the fan speed of the heatsink (which I purchased separate from the CPU)was about 2500 RPM and I am thinking that maybe I should install the manual speed control in order to have better fan performance.

Any input will be appreciated.

 

[SoDNighthawk]

Well you could look at it this way...You would need to heat the thermal compound over 500 Degree's or by formula X's 2 + 30 = 1030 Celsius in order to get it hot enough for it to turn into a vapour (gas) state.

More likely you are smelling the aluminum heatsink bake off some thin film of oil that was present on it.

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[Nitrom]

Yeah...U R right...I guess it can be some brand new capacitor or some brand new component that needs to burn some until it starts working clean.

 

[RX8]

cough weezing cough cough splutter, i just used the same stuff on my cpu, cough cough, i seen some smoke cough it did me the world of good.

cough

cough

sh1t i see some blood.

errrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[RichPLS]

scuze me, just farted. Smell will drift away soon.

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[Rugger]

*breathes deeply*
Now THAT's quality!


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[ChipDeath]

Probably your PSU. They often stink for a little while when brand new.

If it's still smelling after a week then give it a bath

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[endyen]

Do not, under any cercomstances use water on a psu. Always bathe them in pure alcohol.
That would be the best way to get a decent explosion.

 

[Crashman]

Many components have a thin shelac coating, which burns off when it gets hot. As long as it's not burning off a transformer, you're fine.

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[marneus]

Electric burny type fumes or plasticy type fumes... 1 blew up a hub once, the capacitor that went exploded stunk out my whole room for a week

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