Arctic Silver On A P4

[olds]

I've never built a Pentium rig (or seen a Pentium cpu) before. Does arctic silver go across the top of the whole cpu?
I am used to a little dallop on AMD.

 

[rommelrommel]

Yes, across the whole contact area between heatsink and heatspreader.

 

[olds]

Thank you.
Wait, I just re read that.
You mean CPU and heat spreader?
(I see, it's a heat spreader over the cpu)

It's OK to get it in the hole on top of the cpu?
I found it.

 

[infinite012]

I want to know this too. Is it alright to get the arctic silver/ceramique into the hole? I wouldn't think it would affect the thermal conductivity of it. I'm in the same boat with you oldsmoboat. I'm moving to P4 now.

 

[Sunny129]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Thank you.
Wait, I just re read that.
You mean CPU and heat spreader?
(I see, it's a heat spreader over the cpu)

It's OK to get it in the hole on top of the cpu?
I found it.

yes, the flat metallic area on the chip is a heat spreader that covers the die. the AMD chips you're used to has an unprotected die closer to the size of a finger nail. just like you would cover the entire die of an AMD CPU w/ AS, likewise cover the entire heat spreader of the P4 w/ AS as well. that way AS is sure to cover the entire area that comes in contact with whaqtever heatsink/fan you use.

 

[stardust]

i don't see of any way to prevent thermal compound from NOT entering the hole. Of the many P4's i've installed and reinstalled, that hole makes no difference in effiency or performance. I think its a way for intel or any other company to tell whether u've used the cpu or applied thermal compound on the cpu or not. Its impossible to get all the thermal compound out of that hole!

 

[WarCon]

Originally posted by: stardust
i don't see of any way to prevent thermal compound from NOT entering the hole. Of the many P4's i've installed and reinstalled, that hole makes no difference in effiency or performance. I think its a way for intel or any other company to tell whether u've used the cpu or applied thermal compound on the cpu or not. Its impossible to get all the thermal compound out of that hole!

The hole has a much more useful purpose. It is there so that the heatspreader doesn't lift itself off the core from the gases that are given off when their thermal adhesive is curing. Any after manufacturer purpose is unknown to me......

 

[stevejst]

The hole has a much more useful purpose. It is there so that the heatspreader doesn't lift itself off the core from the gases that are given off when their thermal adhesive is curing. Any after manufacturer purpose is unknown to me......

That sounds like a voodoo to me.
Anyway for now I didn't really care whether the AS3 got into the hole or not but in the future I might start to think about that. Not!

 

[solofly]

Originally posted by: stevejst

The hole has a much more useful purpose. It is there so that the heatspreader doesn't lift itself off the core from the gases that are given off when their thermal adhesive is curing. Any after manufacturer purpose is unknown to me......

That sounds like a voodoo to me.
Anyway for now I didn't really care whether the AS3 got into the hole or not but in the future I might start to think about that. Not!

I found it's impossible to avoid the hole when using thermal paste...

 

[seismik]

I want to say I read this on Arctic Silver's website but I couldn't find it when I just checked. That said: It's perfectly ok to get a little thermal paste in the hole on a P4 heat spreader.