Just Got my Tbird 1.4 cpu today, Do I remove those little "feet" in the corners of the cpu?

[Teddi]

Forgive me for such a stupid question, but Ive never built an AMD b4 & I have read alot about people crushing their cores.

My cpu came with 4 of those tiny little foam/rubber feet stuck to each corner of the cpu.

Are these to keep the core from being damaged during shipping?
Or are they supposed to stay on to keep me from crushing the core when I apply the heatsink?

Do I Remove them or leave them be?

The cpu came from NewEgg, so i'm sure if theyre for shipping, someone has seen them before.

Thanks in advance!

 

[buck]

NO!
Not unless you have a shim or something.
What HSF do you have?
Dont take them off till your 100% sure! :Q

 

[flyers1]

Leave those feet alone! They are your friend to help you from crushing the core. What kind of HSF did you get?

Remember to REMOVE any pink plastic cover off of the HSF's thermal pad before attaching otherwise, good bye Tbird!

 

[flyers1]

lol...beat me to it CKY

 

[Pacinamac23]

Only remove them if you wanna crush the core of the CPU. They are there to absorb preasure of the HSF when it is on there. It also makes the preasure more even.

 

[buck]

By a minute Ryan .

What HSF do you have teddi?
Matt

 

[BlvdKing]

Removing the feet is not wise. You will probably crush the core on that bird.

EDIT: Check out thislink. It says it all.

 

[crzyc]

don't touch the core either

 

[Teddi]

Ive got a Taisol with the copper bottom.

Ok, I leave them on then, now I hear theres a right & a wrong way to apply my thermal compound, whats right & whats wrong?

And yes I already removed that pink goop from the heatsink, that was a pain!

 

[msp1518]

As little as possible. The size of a grain of rice. Spread out gently with a razor until it coves the area like a thin film. Less is more hear.

 

[Teddi]

Do I want a thin even film?

If so, its gonna take more than a dot the size of grain of rice to put an even film on this massive heatsink.

Should I be able to see the copper through the compound or should the compound be thick enough you cant see through it?

I dont wanna screw up my cpu.

 

[Wizkid]

Apply the thermal compound to the processor core, not the heatsink. Should be easier that way and less wasteful

 

[batgeek]

put the goop on the chip, not the HSF unit.
please use Artic Silver II, i love the stuff =)

 

[Teddi]

Thats exactly what I have, Arctic Silver2.
It even came in a nice little applicator.

Ok, I'll put it on the core then.

Well windows just finished installing on my old system (I had to reformat cuz I took out all the good stuff out for my Athlon).

So I guess I have enough info to start putting my Athlon together.

wish me luck.

And thanks for the advice guys!