I'm just staggered that nothing went BANG! Can you imagine the effects of getting a bit of peanut butter or deodorant in the CPU socket? My nomination for the next candidate would be a section of a marigold glove...
what he needs to to mod a frying pan so it mounts to the CPU, and then see if its possible to fry eggs before the thermal shut down..
I tried using copper grease on a P3 933 once. The answer is, don't. It was about as much use as a wet fart.