Have I Applied A Good Coating Of Thermal Paste

[jpmad4it]

Hey,

 

is this ok :

 

 

oh yeah, just thought id share this with you:

 

 

hehe nice.

 

Regards Jonathan

[Kash]

You're gonna get different responses based on the different opinions of people here on how to spread AS5. I personally am a proponent of putting a dab of it in the middle and letting the heatsink do the spreading. Just seems as though that would be more even than spreading it myself.

 

Others will tell you that you did a great job. Then there are those who will say slap a ton of the stuff on there and then put the heatsink on. I guess you could try all three and see which one gives you the best temps. Could take a few days for the trial and error process.

[jpmad4it]

ah ok i see. Thanks ill do some testing :-)

[BionicSniper]

for my axp barton it seems that just puting a TON in the middle works

[cchalogamer]

then there are thoes of us who would say it's gonna run hot anyway, but it looks fine btw nice 7800GTX (personaly use the middle and let the HS do the rest method and have never gotten an air pocket that way.)

[romeo55]

Well i used to just put i big blob in the center but that no worky... fried my bare Athlon xp that way.... so yeah i say thats pretty good

[cchalogamer]

well sktA/370 chips/any chip with a bare core needs the core covered, but with a heatspreader as long as you dont go crazy the LITTLE bit in the middle works fine.

[Arkadiy]

I like to put just put a little and the middle and let the heatsink spread it for me.

 

About putting to much of it, I found out the hard way, but it really isn't hard to get off. I used some Artic Remover stuff and with a few drops and a q-tip I swiped it off and it looked shinier than new

 

(got some of it on the actualy chip [the AS5] but it still worked after that, yay!)

[Puck]

I'm a fan of the line across the edge + razor blade spread.Real thin even layer does the job real nice, plus I like to see whats goin on(i dont trust the laws of physics )

[DECwakeboarder]

Lol, I start with spreading a little bit over the whole thing, then building up a little bit in the middle just in case it needs to spread. Basically as long as you have some on there, you'll be fine.

[airman]

according to my method, ya did it perfect =)

[Gr4vitas]

what i do is just take a peice of paper and cut it to fit over the CPU perfectly so it will ketch any that comes off the sides, then i load the proc up and slap the heatsink on and let it smushe out the sides, then i rip the paper out and POOF perfect!

 

( obviosly this is done with pc off lol and i somtimes will take my mobo out, it makes it easyer for gettin the paper out)

Edited October 13, 2005 by pogs16a2