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Hole On P4 Chip

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RazorSharp

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Hi fellow AT'ers, this is my first post. Well recently I bought parts to put together a new system. On the Pentium 4 chip there seems to be a small round hole near the lower left corner of the surface of the chip. When I put my Artic Silver on the chip, will this hole fill up with AS? Should I fill up the hole completely? Is it okay to have thermal grease in this hole?
 
The coat you apply should be so thin that you should'nt have to worry about the hole on the heat spreader. I take a pin and clean out the excess after I'm done applying. Don't deliberately fill the hole. HTH 🙂

And welcome to AT! 😉
 

The hole is normal ... as far as I remember, it has something to do with releasing some gasses that are better not inhaled by humans,
so there.

Something like that anyway. Either way, it's normal & supposed to be like that.

Don't worry - not a case of a rogue trader drilling at your CPU 😀.

- Shathal.
 
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