Opened a Barton 2500+ last night...

[FluxCap]

with the retail heatsink. I am finishing a client's install but using the retail heatsink for the first time and not sure if I should use the thermail compound on the heatsink? It is the little grey square. I assume it will work as well as the P4s black square compound? This machine will never be overclocked so just wanted to see if the stock stuff will do the job. Thanks

 

[Kaiser__Sose]

scrape it off and put some real thermal grease or artic silver or something on it.

 

[FluxCap]

Any reason? I have heard it works just fine and wanted some confirmation. This PC is going to a user who doesn't even know what overclocking is...

 

[MrEgo]

Why would AMD give you a stock heatsink that doesn't work?

 

[FluxCap]

My feelings exactly. I just have never used a stock setup. I am more than happy to try it and just wanted to know if I could slap the heastink on (with the compound that came with it) and be good to go.

 

[Peter D]

you shouldnt need to apply new thermal compound

i do have a question though.. how can both of our rigs be named the same thing? (refer to sigs) :Q

 

[FluxCap]

HAHA, funny. Are they long lost brothers???

 

[pspada]

Originally posted by: Vegetto
you shouldnt need to apply new thermal compound

i do have a question though.. how can both of our rigs be named the same thing? (refer to sigs) :Q

I've put on many, many retail hsf with the little square of phase change material, and they work just fine - unless you are overclocking, or otherwise running the machine out of spec.

Your computers: one machine must be the real "Silver bullet", the other must instead be the "Silver bull$hit"?

 

[FluxCap]

Thanks for the replies, I will be putting it on with the stock material.

 

[jswjimmy]

lol i got my 1800 to 1804mhz with the thermal pad. its jest fine i dont know why so many people dont like it.

 

[Duvie]

On my amd builds in the past for ppl I never had to use anything other then the recommended thermal tape that came with it. Never had a problem. Temps may have been 4-5 higher then what an aftermarket hsf with some other compound but the computers were not hotrodded and amd chips take higher temps just fine...

 

[redhatlinux]

Since you bought Retail, if ya scrape off the PCTC pad, the AMD 3 yr warranty goes out the door. Keep the pad and the warranty.

 

[Soulkeeper]

if you are building the system for a client i would definately not use your own thermal compound
just install the retail heatsink the way AMD intended and warrants it to be installed and they will never have a problem with it
if they want to overclock then they can put their own hsf/thermal compound on

the retail barton heatsinks are pretty good these days with the copper bottom plate

 

[sinthon]

The retail thermal compound is perfectly fine for a stock CPU.