Applying thermal grease

[ColemontHD]

I have a friend who needs a website to show him how to apply thermal grease. I tried to tell him a small portion right dead center of the chip, but he wants to play it safe. Anyone have any good websites with pics for him?

Wrong forum, green pea.

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[Tiamat]

http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=28&flcache=7282342&entercat=y
and Artic Silver's website.

 

[waggy]

you want to cover the cpu in as much as possible. a full tube per CPU. then use a screw driver to get the overflow when you put on the heatsink.


Remember. you can never have to much!






of course. searching google would be a good idea also....

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: waggy
you want to cover the cpu in as much as possible. a full tube per CPU. then use a screw driver to get the overflow when you put on the heatsink.


Remember. you can never have to much!






of course. searching google would be a good idea also....

:laugh:

OP btw, dont do that. You want as little grease as possible - enough to fill the voids of the surface area so that air doesnt get in between the core and the heatsink. Grease is a terrible conductor of heat compared to the heatsink material, but it is better than air.

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: ColemontHD
I have a friend who needs a website to show him how to apply thermal grease. I tried to tell him a small portion right dead center of the chip, but he wants to play it safe. Anyone have any good websites with pics for him?

Do a Google search for about a million different techniques. Get your lazy ass hands off the keyboard rest, off ATOT, and onto Google.

 

[sswingle]

Do it like this:
http://www.trelowney.net/pasta.jpg