Arctic Silver Help!!!

[shiner]

Hi there!! I'm in the process of shopping around for a new CPU and also plan on purchasing some Arctic Silver to slap on under my Golden Orb and was wondering if you could help me out. My dilemma is this, Artic Silver is sold in two different mixtures: Small Contact Area and Large Contact Area. Which do I need for either a PIII 733 or PIII 933? I haven't decided which chip to purchase but since they are both the same size it doesn't really matter. I'm assuming that the large contact area Arctic Silver is for those processors but would like to confirm before I purchase.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Renob]

You need the small.....

 

[Frenchie]

Renob is correct small contact area paste for flip chips.

 

[wj]

Is it a must to used the small A/S on a flip chips. Is it going to hurt if you used the large on a flip chips. Just thinking about it because I use the large A/S on my flip chip because I all ready had it.




wj

 

[Mikewarrior2]

No, Large Contact Surface AS is only easier to spread.



Mike

 

[aceO07]

i ordered the small contact artic silver last week. now i'm just patiently waiting for it to arrive. i'm also going to try it with a gorb. also waiting for my plextor 12/10/32.. woohoo!!