Thermal Paste

[mp3boy]

What's the best way to apply thermal paste to a cpu/cooler?

Do I use a lot or just a small blob? And onto the cpu or the heatsink?

Does anyone have any links with pictures please? :)


Cheers
Chris

[smokafatty]

Depends on which cpu.

[Neo]

http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm

[mp3boy]

Perfect, thanks :)

It's an AMD Athlon XP 2600+

One more question, do the different types of this cpu run hotter/cooler? I have one with the Thoroughbred core.

Cheers
Chris

[xdeity]

yes the thourobred does run slightly hotter than the barton but that does not matter if you are gonna use a decent cooler and some arctic silver

[mp3boy]

Just installed it with "Cooler master Premium" paste and it's still running at 53c idle, same as when I just had the standard heatsink paste that was already on there... that seems a little warm doesn't it? :/

I'm using a Coolermaster Aero 7 Lite at full speed.


Cheers
Chris

[Neo]

Eh? Why not use the real stuff? Arctic Silver 5....

[mp3boy]

Because i happened to have a tube of that. Will order some arctic silver.

Cheers
Chris