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| Author: | Diablo-X [ Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Applying thermal paste to the C2D |
Ok I should be getting my e4400 tomorrow, how do I correctly apply the Thermal paste to it?? Now I thought it was meant to be like this;  (The red line indicates how the thermal paste should be applied)
But Rainbow Dave just said that on his one 'it was a circle, like a jaffa cake middle bit circle.' contrary to my line in middle theory  , anyway so I'm confused as to which is better and stuff now so anyone know which is best?
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| Author: | elbow=GCHQ= [ Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:16 am ] |
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so I guess you're using an old heatsink? just get a tiny blob, about the same size as a lentil in the middle, make sure your heatsink is spotless (white spirit and cotton buds) and thwack it on, easy as |
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| Author: | Diablo-X [ Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:21 am ] |
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elbow=GCHQ= wrote: so I guess you're using an old heatsink?
just get a tiny blob, about the same size as a lentil in the middle, make sure your heatsink is spotless (white spirit and cotton buds) and thwack it on, easy as Using Zalman 9500 heatsink, and alright I may do that, we'll see what others say 
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| Author: | Mike=GCHQ= [ Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:29 am ] |
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yer blob method is what i did.. noticed a 15 degrees drop in temperature at the time using arctic silver aswell apparently 1/3 of a ball bearing for AMD 1/2 a ball bearing for intel |
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| Author: | Lemon =GCHQ= [ Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:33 am ] |
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elbow=GCHQ= wrote: so I guess you're using an old heatsink?
just get a tiny blob, about the same size as a lentil in the middle, make sure your heatsink is spotless (white spirit and cotton buds) and thwack it on, easy as sorry no cotton buds or tissue ... use sommert that wont lint |
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| Author: | elbow=GCHQ= [ Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:18 am ] |
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Lemon =GCHQ= wrote: elbow=GCHQ= wrote: so I guess you're using an old heatsink? just get a tiny blob, about the same size as a lentil in the middle, make sure your heatsink is spotless (white spirit and cotton buds) and thwack it on, easy as sorry no cotton buds or tissue ... use sommert that wont lint the heatsink should be smooth enough that it won't pick any up, but run it over with a swanky cloth at the end. |
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| Author: | Tao [ Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:39 am ] |
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The artic silver instructions says to add it like that line, thats what I did myself. |
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| Author: | Mike=GCHQ= [ Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:07 am ] |
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to clean it.... i got some kleenex / bounty strong tissue.. just dap it at top of white spirit bottle and just gently rub and dab it against surface till its gone.. it wont all lilt its strong tissue |
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| Author: | Diablo-X [ Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:03 am ] |
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In the end I just used my t-shirt to clean it, shoved the thermal paste on the cpu in a dodgey line, and put the heatsink on. hope it works for more than 3 months this time *fingers crossed* |
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