Applying thermal compund

MattHep · 20 Oct 2008 at 07:40

Hi,

Daft question but could someone give me some advice on applying thermal compound before installing my processor onto my motherboard?

Just incase you need the info i'm using:

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)

On

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.83GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail

&

Asus P5Q-E Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Thanks

Matt

PaulyD · 20 Oct 2008 at 07:59

There is a guide on artic's website that shows exactly how to do this.

Sorry i don't have a link as i'm on my phone right now!

MattHep · 20 Oct 2008 at 08:06

thankyou

Craigius · 20 Oct 2008 at 13:26

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

zykan · 20 Oct 2008 at 18:08

ye cheers for that too, i didn't know either

Phil2008 · 21 Oct 2008 at 03:11

should you reapply it aver a couple of months or yrs??

Craigius · 21 Oct 2008 at 09:34

Phil2008 said:
should you reapply it aver a couple of months or yrs??

Im not too sure on that one mate i guess it wouldn't hurt.