Advice Installing HSF

[nheather]

I have a Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer that I bought from Overclockers.

It is to be fitted on an AMD 955.

It comes with Tuniq TX-2 which I gather is pretty good.

Seems straightforward apart from the instructions about applying the TX-2. It says

Apply evenly over the CPU surface. Apply twice as much than usual because of the unique base design.

The base has the heatpipes exposed so you get a striped copper\aluminium effect.

So why do you need to apply twice as much thermal grease?

And what is the best way of applying twice as much - should I apply the normal thin layer to the CPU and a thin layer to the heatsink base?

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[Fred]

Try this here