Installing A CPU.

[KeepItRed]

Question:

How do you install a brand new CPU? My friend says that once you put it in, you have tp put the liquid on the CPU, then the heatsink on top. He says if you apply too much pressure on the heatsink you can crack the die, is this true? I though you put it in the socket, use the liquid and just use the 2 clamps on the heatsink to mount it down. What's the proper way to do it?

 

[RichUK]

if its the new chips with IHS (integrated Heat Spreaders) on top, then all you do is put a grain of rice sized grease (AS5 or what ever you use) in the middle of the CPU (on the top of course), then just clamp down the Heatsink down and try and give it a little twist and then you are done.

now if it is the old cores (without the IHS) then yes if you apply to much pressure (i mean like resting half your body weight on it) then yeah it could crack an damage the die (the silicon in the middle), you must use a different technique when putting the grease on, and this is to spread it on evenly with a razor blade or credit card. Check the Arctic silver website for instructions they also have pics to help you 😉

EDIT:

Instructions for non IHS chips here

Instructions for chips with an IHS here

hope this helps 🙂

RichUK

 

[Paul Stamatiou]

it is very difficult to crack the die on modern chips... they often use a metal heatspreader which spreads the pressure... unless you are building a pentium m machine or using an athlon xp chip....

once the cpu is in the socket, all you need to do is apply a thin, even layer of thermal grease/gunk and put whatever HSF you want on it (heatsink fan... its the whole cooler assembly), if its got clips, just attach/tighten them slowly to lessen the sudden stress on the motherboard

only mount the hsf when the motherboard is in the case and screwed in.. this prevents stress or mobo flex from the added pressure of the hsf against the cpu rentention frame

edit: ah damn rich jsut beat me

 

[RichUK]

^^^^^^^^ 😛 ^^^^^^^^

 

[KeepItRed]

How can you find out if your processor is IHS or not?

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: KeepItRed
How can you find out if your processor is IHS or not?

it wont be an IHS, it will have an IHS 😉

what CPU do you have, or what is the CPU in question?

basically if you look at the pics on the links that i have provided you will notice the similarities with your chip, in the fact that there might be a metal plate on top with CPU die/core underneath, or just a little square which is the naked die itself.

 

[KeepItRed]

I'm most likely going to stick with the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ but if a new dual core comes out from AMD soon I'll get that.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: KeepItRed
I'm most likely going to stick with the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ but if a new dual core comes out from AMD soon I'll get that.

that chip has an IHS, you can use the original heatsink fan assembly which has a good enough thermal pad on the bottom of the heatsink, and in that case you will only have to install the CPU put the retail heatsink on top and then secure it with the leaver.

or if you look to upgrade the heat sink then follow the instructions in the arctic silver link provided above, and just put the blob of grease in the middle, then install the heatsink, then just install the fan, and then you are done 😀

 

[KeepItRed]

Thanks, This site shows the installation, but the chip they used looked VERY old lol so I wasn't sure.

And apparently pads are only used now, as grease is only used for testing purposes.🙂

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: KeepItRed
Thanks, This site shows the installation, but the chip they used looked VERY old lol so I wasn't sure.

And apparently pads are only used now, as grease is only used for testing purposes.🙂

yeah thats the old type of core, in the respect of no IHS .. anyways have fun on the installation, you'll be done in no time 😉

EDIT: yeah pads are what AMD use as stock but if you looking for better cooling i the future, then check out Arctic Silver 5 as this has the best conductivity for heat transfer compared to the rest on the market, but be sure to buy a good heatsink and fan set up as well

 

[KeepItRed]

Heh, thanks again.