Opteron 146 and Arctic Silver

[craigyboytaz]

N00b alert!!

Sorry fo rthis dumbass question, but I have been 'laptopping' for a good few years now, so have missed out on a good bit of desktop development, would be greatful if someone could help with the following:

If using AS paste, do I have to take the cover off the chip itself?

And is IHS the correct term for the cover?

 

[Borden]

Do you mean take off the metal top? No, you don't have to. People only normally do that when using phase change. Just wack the AS straight on

 

[craigyboytaz]

sweet dawg!

thanks for not laughing!

 

[dunno]

only stick on a rice size blob of Arctic Silver on the middle of the processor

 

[loltim]

People only normally do that when using phase change.

and water

 

[spoonz]

IMHO

rub AS into the bottom of heatsink (very small amount) to fill out the very very msall imperfections in the metal.

then put a wafer and I mean wafer thin coating on the IHS.

 

[geeza]

My freezer64pro came with one of those pads but i still put as5 on. Only a bit and the pad combined with as5 made stuff crap out over the edge. I just rolled a ear bud stick next to it and it cleans it nicely!

 

[Explicit]

My freezer64pro came with one of those pads but i still put as5 on. Only a bit and the pad combined with as5 made stuff crap out over the edge. I just rolled a ear bud stick next to it and it cleans it nicely!

lol, that defeats the object of AS5. You were supposed to clean off the old thermal pad