On a more hair-brained idea, I was thinking about AS5 and it's cure directions. Got this right off their site, here.

"Due to the unique shape and sizes of the particles in Arctic Silver 5 conductive matrix, it will take a up to 200 hours and several thermal cycles to achieve maximum particle to particle thermal conduction and for the heatsink to CPU interface to reach maximum conductivity. (This period will be longer in a system without a fan on the heatsink or with a low speed fan on the heatsink.) On systems measuring actual internal core temperatures via the CPU's internal diode, the measured temperature will often drop 2C to 5C over this "break-in" period. This break-in will occur during the normal use of the computer as long as the computer is turned off from time to time and the interface is allowed to cool to room temperature. Once the break-in is complete, the computer can be left on if desired."

(My bolding)

Hmmm, thermal cycling. We crunchers don't do that...It's 24/7/365 for us. I took one of my WCG profiles, adjusted the "CPU usage" parameter to 50% and now have Farm-09, the one with the recent AS5 test, to cycling. The temp is jumping up and down as you would expect. About 3C, but jumping. I can only get CT to do 1 second samples, so I may not be seeing the full swing.

It would be more of an extreme swing if I suspended, resumed, suspended, etc.

The duty cycle by modding the profile is rather quick. If I could have 20-30 seconds on, 20-30 off, that would cycle the temp more radically. Hence, it may cure any paste of this type, including D7, faster.

My question to the SW jocks out there, could some kind of simple macro be cooked up that will send the resume/suspend command to BOINC, much like you can do with BoincView? Can it be done inside BoincView? If not, this standalone type program would have to supply the unique "GUI_RPC_AUTH" code to boinc, and have the requisite "REMOTE_HOSTS" info put in the target machine, if not run locally. I obviously don't know quite what I'm talking about here, but you I hope my Neanderthal description helps....

Of course, something like a primes or OCCT would be a better candidate for this, but at least with BOINC, we're still working while we cure, in both senses of the word , right?

A quick and dirty approach would also be welcome. I'd like to try this.

Thanks and Regards,
Bob