Arctic Silver application on Conroe

[Shakey_Jake33]

Just a quick newbie Q, always used AMD CPU's until now, and just stuck the white thermal paste into the square area in the center of the CPU, job done.

Moving on now, planning to use Arctic Silver instead, and a Conroe CPU - no 'square' in the middle like AMD's!
Do I still apply to just the center of the CPU? As thin a layer as possible I suppose... being over-cautious here!

 

[Shakey_Jake33]

Wow as little as that? Sounds like I'll be bearly putting any on at all.

 

[Shakey_Jake33]

Brilliant link mate, know what I'm supposed to be doing now

Probably seems madly basic stuff for most overclockers here, but for those of us who have always been happy using white thermal paste at stock speeds, it's all new, and it's a totally different method of application really.

 

[Shakey_Jake33]

Is reapplication completely necessary? 5 months seems pretty frequent, and it looks like it's a pain to re-do.

 

[Shakey_Jake33]

I have my machine on 24-7 for various reasons, so having to do through the powering down process at the beginning is a big enough pain as it is (gotta do it though), so having to go through the process again every few months would just be downright annoying!