Do you guys tint your heatsinks with thermal paste before applying paste + cooler?

[ManBearPig]

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[ManBearPig]

Anyone do this? I've seen it suggested pretty much only at the arctic silver website but dont know if it's really necessary. Thanks.

Check out page 4.

 

[Subyman]

Tint my heat sink? I don't understand. I guess you could mean "tin" the heatsink, using soldering terminology, but I'm still not sure what that accomplishes. Do you mean apply thermal compound to the heatsink as well as the CPU before mounting? If so, then I don't really see a need for that.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Tint as:
Clean the heat sink, apply the thermal paste once, clean it off, then apply it again 'for real'?

 

[ManBearPig]

http://www.arcticsilver.com/pdf/appmeth/int/vl/intel_app_method_vertical_line_v1.1.pdf

page 4

 

[quakefiend420]

"but not too much, because you don't want to make a huge mess"

hahaha

 

[EagleEye]

I would say no...my guess is that they want you to use lots of AS5 so you have to go buy more?

 

[Subyman]

Well, it kind of makes sense. I would say it's more of a "prime" than a tint haha. It seems to fill in the small imperfections of the heatsink more uniformly than simply applying the compound normally. Give it a try. I've never done that, but I may try it next time I need to mount if I have extra compound.

 

[BoomerD]

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=150&Itemid=62

 

[T_Yamamoto]

LOL. there nothing here xD well played

 

[mfenn]

I would say that it could help to "prime" it, but I usually don't bother. My experience is that you should just put a grain of rice sized blob in the middle and let pressure do its magic. One degree either way won't matter.

Take this with a grain of salt however, I have installing a lot of damn heatsinks in my life an I am getting lazy.

 

[Paperlantern]

I agree with fenn, I don't think this would EVER be necessary unless you are one of those SUPER finicky, epically OCD people that have to have EVERY last ounce of perfection in place. THe microscopic imperfections in a heatsink will be filled by pressing the heatsink to the die... I don't see the point here, i would wager a guess that EagleEye might be onto something.

No I don't "tint", and i have never tinted any of the 1000 some odd heatsinks i have installed in my life, and there have never been an issue.

 

[SKORPI0]

:biggrin::awe:🙄

 

[BoomerD]

:biggrin::awe:🙄

You missed a spot...😛

 

[GoStumpy]

I made the mistake of putting a pea-sized drop instead of a rice-sized drop on a Celeron D the other day... Definitely messy! Almost got some on the socket even 😳

 

[Paperlantern]

That pic is cute. beginner mistake there for sure. Though if that person read directions, and still did that, they need to leave the PC troubleshooting and building to someone else.