Arctic Silver...How do you do yours?

[Youstolemyname]

Kind of like a creme egg question...how do you apply yours?

AMD Datasheet says spread a thin layer over the entire lid of the processor.

Arctic Silver say plonk a grain of rice sized blob in the middle of the die and squish the heatsink down with a twist.

How does everyone on here do it?

Im a grain of rice guy myself, just wondering if the thin layer method is better?

 

[GeForce]

Im a grain of rice guy myself

Same, I follow AS's instructions to the letter

 

[Justintime]

Have found credit card and thin layer works better for me than the rice grain method. Also have found with IHS cpus thinnest layer is not always the best as the ihs/heatsink may be uneven and leave air pockets etc.. unless lapped properly. While not thick by any means i find a fairly opaque layer to be best (as opposed to a thin almost transparent layer)

 

[BigglesPiP]

Like this



Plus a lot of pressure, makes a very thin (mostly transparent) coat over the whole of the IHS if I get the quantity right.

 

[Van Diemen]

^^^^^ Same here, I use the Arctic Silver method

 

[Teaf]

Same as BigglesPiP, just less paste

 

[Will_3rd]

I'm a grain of rice guy myself

 

[Jokester]

Credit card as thin as possible (this won't work on a unlapped C2D if it's not flat).

Jokester

 

[w3bbo]

Razer blade spreading as thin as possible (CPU steeping etc just about visable).