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Arctic Silver on a Tbird

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pcmodem

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Howdy,
Got my Arctic Silver II Thermalpaste in the mail, will apply it to my AMD Tbird 1.133Ghz CPU once it arrives in the mail, along with the revised Alpha 6035 PAL6035 heatsink-fan.

Any special way to apply the Arctic Silver to the CPU, or should one just sploosh it on everythwere with gusto (ie, should some areas of the CPU top be avoided)?

Thanks.
 
Spread it out thin only on the die -----> the rectangular thingy in the center with all the numbers on it.

Did you get something wrong in your signature?

😉
 
Be careful to not use too much. It really only needs a little bit. And ONLY apply it to the top of the core. The 1cm * 1cm protrusion in the center of the chip.
 
The edge of a credit card works wonders for spreading it evenly....although cutting the credit card up to get a small strip the wedth of the CPU slug works the best.
 


<< The edge of a credit card works wonders for spreading it evenly >>


have you thought about if he actually has a credit card? 🙂
 
I use a razor blade to spread the artic silver thin on the CPU. The blade also comes in handy scraping off a thermal pad.
 
Any thin, hard, and flat surface card would suffice. The purpose is getting the paste to spread as thinly and as evenly as possible.
 
Whoops, when I applied it, I just placed it out of the tube on the core, then allowed the heatsink to squish it and even things out.

I'm with Jalapeno, what's with your sig?
 
I do have to say, that a &quot;Translucent glaze&quot; (something I read from the arctic silver website some time ago) will not work as well as a slighly thicker application layer....

For my own systems, for 3 processors now (1 duron, 2 athlon), a slightly thicker coat worked best in bringing measured temps down (I wont talk absolutes, as MikeWarrior why)...but philosophically, you dont want too thick of a coat. As thin as you can get away with, but thick enough to provide full coverage.

But of course, YMMV. Dont take it (or anything) as a rule.

G.
 
I think there are different thoughts to the thickness rule. You must apply enough to fill in the grooved(typically) heatsink. So I went against normal logic and just smeared a very very thin coat on the heat sink to simulate &quot;lapping&quot;(A very tedious process of polishing and leveling the core and the heatsink with very fine grit wet sandpaper) with the Arctic Silver. Then I applied a thin coat to the core of the processor and spread it even with a razor blade. If you are going for absolutes, you should lap your core and the heatsink.
Then apply a very thin coat of arctic silver, but most of us ain't gonna do that. (I'm too lazy :Q)

P.S. If anyone has ever tried to get the Artic Silver off the heatsink will notice that it reacts with copper if thats what your using. Don't know what that really does but it imbeds itself.

P.S.S. Its a real pain to get outta clothes too 🙁
 
i was testing out to sqeeze a little bit of this stuff onto my finger..
sqeezed a bit too hard and crap.. got it on my fingers.. so i go to the bathroom and turn on water, put hands in and start rubbing..
then holy crap.. both my hands are grey... so i busted out some dial soap.. yummy
 
I put some AS on my t-bird w/ a Taisol hs/fan. When I took off the hs/fan, I noticed that pretty much ALL the AS had been pushed off to the side due to the high pressure of the taisol clip.
 
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