How much thermal paste to use

[jacktesterson]

Im overclocking an old PC for fun and was wondering how much thermal paste to apply to it, it has never run with thermal paste on it before, and its a Pentium 233 MHz.....with the board Im using im hoping to hit 290 MHz

 

[Buz2b]

First off, please try to combine your threads as much as possible. It is generally looked down upon when you have multiple related threads in one forum. I answered some of your questions in the other thread but as to this one, you will find some excellent instructions on Arctic Silver on this page. From your other thread, I am assuming that is what you will be using.

 

[BuddyAtBzboyz]

Basically apply it quite thin or you will be decreasing your heat transfer.

 

[jna]

Originally posted by: AMDHardcoreFan
Im overclocking an old PC for fun and was wondering how much thermal paste to apply to it, it has never run with thermal paste on it before, and its a Pentium 233 MHz.....with the board Im using im hoping to hit 290 MHz

Apply it until it comes oozing out from underneath the heatsink into the fan where it sprays into the power supply and gets white stuff all over the walls.

That's the only way to be sure you used enough.

 

[BuddyAtBzboyz]

Umm ok. Quit teasing him.

 

[Schnieds]

I have asked this question before and after getting some help from the people in this forum and doing some testing myself, it seems like a "tanslucent haze" is the best method for AS3 application. The actual AS3 website shows putting on a pretty thick layer of the compound, however when applied that way the heat isn't transferred as well and temps are at least +5C higher (at least on my system.)

It is much better to get just enough AS3 on your die so that you can see the lettering still, but there is a haze of AS3 on it. The AS3 is there to conduct the heat away from the die, not to cover the die and make it a pretty silver. =)

Hope that helps.

 

[BuddyAtBzboyz]

"The actual AS3 website shows putting on a pretty thick layer of the compound"

Heh of course that's like how the heinz site would show pictures of hotdogs covered in ketchup. They want you to use more so they make more money 😉

 

[Boonesmi]

ive found that a very very thin layer works best (not only does it keep the cpu nice and cool, plus it makes less of a mess 🙂 )