Hole On P4 Chip

RazorSharp

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Sep 13, 2002
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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?
 

Mikki

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Jun 13, 2002
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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! ;)
 

shathal

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May 4, 2001
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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 :D.

- Shathal.