applying thermal paste

batchie · 19 Oct 2006 at 17:10

can somebody tell me the correct way to apply thermal paste to the new conroe e6600 cpu.it's my first intel chip and there is to many conflicting suggestions regarding artic silver application.
Is it add a blob the size of a grain of rice in the centre
Or spread it out evenly all over the cpu.
I usually do the first one on all my amd cpus :confused:

Jimbo · 19 Oct 2006 at 17:57

This way..

http://www.arcticsilver.com/pdf/appinstruct/as5/ins_as5_intel_dual_wcap.pdf

It works very well.

Malal · 20 Oct 2006 at 13:56

I'm about to start building my new PC.

I have read the artic silver document and that looks fine but looking at the heatsink you get with the processor it has 3 lines of thermal material sort of like

----------
----||----
-||-||-||-
-||-||-||-
-||-||-||-
----||----
---------- || = Thermal material

Would it be better to copy what is on the supplied heatsink so one longer central line with 2 shorter ones either side or just do what thte artic silver manual suggests?

Cheers

Malal

AFK_Matrix · 20 Oct 2006 at 16:22

If your talking about the Heatsink you get with a Retail CPU then if its brand new then it should have a thermal pad on the bottom. If your not gonna overclock etc then just use the thermal pad. If you do want to use your own thermal paste you must clean off this thermal Pad before applying your thermal paste.

Malal · 20 Oct 2006 at 17:16

No its a new heatsink.

Artic silver say just put the thermal grease in a line down the cinter of the chip.

but the reference heatsink has that line + 1 shorter line either side.

So do as artic silver suggest or copy the way the supplied heatsink has it and do 3 lines of artic silver?