Is crushing your processor when clamping down a Heatsink normal?

[BadAzz]

Is crushing your processor when clamping down a Heatsink normal? I feel that I am applying way too much pressure trying to clamp my heatsink to my processor. The thermal compound on the chip flowed over onto the side. Is this normal? Should it be this hard? I am only able to get one side of the clip on. Thanks.

 

[koldklock]

There should be a fair amount of pressure, and the thermal compound is supposed to flow out, but be careful about excess amounts of pressure; you can easily crack or chip your processor's core.

What heatsink and processor are you using?

 

[BadAzz]

A GlobalWin FOP38 (the loud one) and a T-Bird 800. I finally got it on. I bent and wore the clips a bit. When I tried to wipe off some of the excess Artic Silver that flowed over I got it all over some of the little chips on the processor. Hope I didn't kill it.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Why did you bother wiping off the excess. It isn't gonna do anythign sitting on the cpu substrate.

ANd you potentially could have screwed up the application of AS, since it was already compressed. I would personally wipe off all AS with rubbing alcohol, and reapply it again. And I wouldn't worry about the excess that is squeezed out when mounting the heatsink.


Mike

 

[SmackdownHotel]

I thought Arctic Silver was NOT electrically conductive, so I guess it wouldn't matter if you got it over your CPU circuitry. Those little rubber "feet" on the Tbird do wonders in preventing your core from becoming crushed.

 

[hubbs]

Your not suppose to have all that much Thermal Compound on in the first place. It is just suppose to be a thin hayze on your processors core.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

If you read a few threads about a week ago, some people are having more luck with AS with thicker layers than normal.


Mike

 

[Fish54]

actually AS is thermally conductive

 

[Need4Speed]

Well I would hope that it is "thermally" conductive...which I'm not sure is even a word. If it wasn't "theramlly" conductive there would be no point in puuting on the core, would there? As a matter of fact, it would make things worse by not allowing the heat to transfer to the heatsink....

Whether it is an electrical conductor or not, I have no idea...

 

[Navi]

Use duct-tape. It fixes everything =]

-Navi