Applying the Thermal Compound, Please check :)

[0neAnd0nly]

This is how I applied it with a glove, does that look ok for the HSF ? (Prom Mega)

Please answer A.S.A.P. about to add heatsink into case

Thanks,

*Here my i7 build thread:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18110539

 

[Elfmeister.]

I'd be tempted to clean off the excess paste around the locking mech just in case.

 

[Stupot_]

What have you done!

I bet you've got it all over your face too.

Clean it off and start again, that looks like too much and it's everywhere!

 

[0neAnd0nly]

What have you done!

I bet you've got it all over your face too.

Clean it off and start again, that looks like too much and it's everywhere!

Not as bad as it looks, its none on the clip around it just on the processor now. Show me a pic of how it should look or something, its very fine layer, any less and it keeps showing lines of the processor

 

[COYS]

Too much imo. Only need a rice size amount in the centre then carefuklly twist the heatsink on it before screwing it down

 

[Stupot_]

^ what he said

 

[bob055]

I just put a pea size bit in the middle and let the heatsink spread it out

 

[reiyushin]

I use the pressure method too. Seems to work well

 

[b-star]

little drop in the middle, can use cooler as a pressure, but I remove usually pressure and spread more if necessary, as very very thin' layer suppose to be.
thinner layer can reduce temp 2-6C.

 

[BIGBC]

I use methylated spirits and cotton buds for removal and a little bead in the center of the CPU when applying.

This method with a Megahelems keeps my 920 D0 very happy at 3.8GHz peaking at 60C.

 

[Phage]

http://www.arcticsilver.com/ins_route_step2intelas5.html

 

[chief barker]

I use methylated spirits and cotton buds for removal and a little bead in the center of the CPU when applying.

This method with a Megahelems keeps my 920 D0 very happy at 3.8GHz peaking at 60C.

Has anybody tried just using a pea? not frozen though.

 

[arknor]

Has anybody tried just using a pea? not frozen though.

some guy tried copper coins , one of those metalic takeaway cartons and some eggs once.

the egg cooked

 

[Eddie]

When you say you applied it using a glove, you don't mean the woolie sort do you? Looking at the pic I think I can see what looks like strands of white thread, were you gloves white?

Either way though, there's too much on and it should only be on the cpu itself, nowhere else.

 

[thevet]

This is how I applied it with a glove, does that look ok for the HSF ? (Prom Mega)

Please answer A.S.A.P. about to add heatsink into case

Thanks,

*Here my i7 build thread:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18110539

make sure your heatsink is flat before fitting as it may need lapping.

 

[thevet]

I use methylated spirits and cotton buds for removal and a little bead in the center of the CPU when applying.

This method with a Megahelems keeps my 920 D0 very happy at 3.8GHz peaking at 60C.

3.8 with a d0,i get 3.8 with mu c0,you should be at 4ghz minimum not 3.8.

 

[0neAnd0nly]

When you say you applied it using a glove, you don't mean the woolie sort do you? Looking at the pic I think I can see what looks like strands of white thread, were you gloves white?

Either way though, there's too much on and it should only be on the cpu itself, nowhere else.

LMAO, sorted problem now/

Added thin layer (pea size) and spread with card on CPU.

 

[BIGBC]

3.8 with a d0,i get 3.8 with mu c0,you should be at 4ghz minimum not 3.8.

your opinion of 'should be' holds no bearing on me whatsoever.

I have had 4.2 stable, but it just isnt utilised.

 

[arknor]

LMAO, sorted problem now/

Added thin layer (pea size) and spread with card on CPU.

spreading only works well if your heatsink is lapped flat, best to just do the line methord for i7 which someone linked to on the artic silver site

 

[Uther]

Its funny that even after all these years people still have different ways of applying thermal paste.