Newbie needs advice on how to convert stock fan to super orb

[WildCard]

I just got my Asus A7V & TBird 900, and TCcomputers.com installed a cruddy little low power fan when they burned it in. I have a Super Orb and some Arctic Silver, anxious to get it setup. I have a few questions:

1) I guess I first have to clean off the gunk that is on the CPU. I took a tupperware grapefruit peeler and got off 98% of it. Any good ideas on what to use to get it already for the Arctic Silver?

2) I want to possibly overclock it sometime, so should I do the pencil trick right away? Does that trick still work?

3) My motherboard has two places to plug in a fan, marked F_Fan and CPU_Fan. Presently my stock fan is plugged into the CPU_Fan part, but superOrbs have two fans. If I plug the second fan into F_Fan, will I mess something else up or take from something that I shouldn't be? Also, with fan monitoring programs, any idea on which plug here (F_Fan or CPU_fan) it will monitor? I am assuming it only does one, and probably CPU_fan.

4) Any hints on how to go about applying the Arctic Silver would be appreciated.

Thanks for any help all, I want to get this done right, the first time. If you don't want to get into any explanations, but know a good link that would help answer any of these questions, please post it. I tried to search for these problems, but didn't find any. Also tried looking at hardocp.com, but their site didn't seem to offer anything that would help.

Thanks again!
-WC-

 

[dafinster]

to get the rest of the original goop off you could use a paper towel and some alcohol. The monitoring software will monitor both fan plugs so you don't need to worry about that. I don't know anything about Thunderbird overclocking, I sold my soul to Intel.

 

[WildCard]

great, thanks for that part of it. Anyone around that can help me with the rest of my post? Thanks!

-WC-

 

[ErikS]

JonnnyGuru has a good example of how to install a socket a HSF on his site. It's listed under "Socket A Mishaps" or here is the direct link JonnnyGuru's installation guide.

 

[WildCard]

nice, thanks. That does help. I am looking for some info on cleaning up the old, as well as putting on the new. I got the new part with this last website. Never did he mention the thermal grease, except that AMD doesn't recommend it. Weird..

-WC-

 

[WildCard]

bump, please help me out. I _really_ want to get this going tonite!!

-WC-

 

[chiwawa626]

Thermal greese is easy.
Just put a dab on the bottom of the heatsink, then try to smoothe it out till u get the thinest layer u can.
Some people use a Blade to scrape off to make it thin layer, u can use the edge of a credit card or anything