Thermal Compund

[scca325is]

When I built my first PC, I made a huge mistake that I never noticed until a few months later. When I combined the CPU to my board, I put the Artic Cilver Thermal Compund inbetween the board and the processer. There was also a pacth of the thermal compund on the heatsink that I was not aware of. To this day, my PC is still running very well with the compound in the wrong place. Within those few months, I built two other machines the same way and they all run flawlessly. Did I stumble onto something here? or did I just get lucky three times?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Where exactly did you put the Artic Silver?

 

[scca325is]

I spread the compund evenly across the patch on the board where the CPU goes. Now, the compund is smeared all over the CPU where the pins are. But it still works great.

 

[TuxDave]

O_O You put artic silver on the CPU pins??? WHY?

 

[sangyup81]

you're lucky there's no short circuiting

it's a good thing you didn't put enough on to make it do that

 

[krcat1]

It works great? Did you happen to have a stock heatsink that still had the thermal pad on it?

One day, soon, the CPU is going to start to smoke.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: scca325is
When I built my first PC, I made a huge mistake that I never noticed until a few months later. When I combined the CPU to my board, I put the Artic Cilver Thermal Compund inbetween the board and the processer. There was also a pacth of the thermal compund on the heatsink that I was not aware of. To this day, my PC is still running very well with the compound in the wrong place. Within those few months, I built two other machines the same way and they all run flawlessly. Did I stumble onto something here? or did I just get lucky three times?

Originally posted by: scca325is
I spread the compund evenly across the patch on the board where the CPU goes. Now, the compund is smeared all over the CPU where the pins are. But it still works great.

BUUWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You are dumb, and funny

Your Dumbfunny

AAAHAHAHAHAHAHA ...

 

[scca325is]

This is what I don't understand. I built this PC over a year ago and it still runs runs great. No problems whatsover. To add to that, I build three machines with the compund in the wrong place and those also run great and they were built over a year ago. Can anyone explain this? It sounds crazy to me that these computers are still runnung.

p.s. I no longer build them this way.

 

[sangyup81]

Perhaps Arctic Silver 5 isn't electrically conductive?

 

[RichUK]

yeah i can explain this you are damn lucky that you didnt put a handful of that sh1t on there and create a short circuit between the pins, that stuff has silver in it (obviously) and is conductive, although not as conductive as water, but all the same what was you thinking, never delve into something your not sure on .. or was you sure this is how it was applied, and further to that you did it to 3 more systems, jesus .. NEWBNESS

what were you thinking i hate to mock but common is this a joke .. did you not think to yourself that this does not seem right .. i got to say you did make me laugh i had to read it a second time because i couldnt believe what i was reading, and if you were not OCing then why bother with the thermal paste, use the stock parts with a stock proc

Jeees

Seriously is this a joke

 

[scca325is]

I have heard this possibility before and so far it seems like the only reasonable conclusion yet. With all of this said and done, is there a way to remove the compound or fix this issue? Or must I live in shame forever?

update: When I built my first PC (the issue at hand), I had help from a friend that had experience in the department. It was my understanding from his teachings that I was to put the compund on the board inbetween the CPU and board. I admit that at the time it sounded a little off, but what did I know? I was a newbie. A few months later, I learned that I simply misunderstood his intructions. Now a year later, the PC is still running and I am looking to upgrade my PC. I wanted to sell my CPU to a friend, but I wanted to make sure it would be safe for him. I think I will instruct this friend to buy his own CPU.

 

[RichUK]

just leave it for now as you have left it for a year now and it has been fine ..

if you really want to clean to redeem yourself, then im not sure but you might be able to take the socket off and clean with rubbing alcohol "99% pure"

 

[redhatlinux]

Perhaps SOMEBODY should find out why, after spending TONS of money on Research and Development AMD specs ONLY Thermal pads ???. Not saying AS is bad but very few people know how to apply it and pads just work and work and work for hundreds of thousands of system builds EVERY day, all over the World !!

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: sangyup81
Perhaps Arctic Silver 5 isn't electrically conductive?

It's not, but even AS itself say and can be in certain situations...

But to be clear, you put thermal paste in the SOCKET?

WOW.