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Klinster
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_ 		16. March 2009 @ 18:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So the other day I replaced the thermal compound and applied arctic silver 5. I followed the less is more mantra, I put the heatsink back fired it up and I notice that SpeedFan says it's 10C hotter. I have re-applied it twice and it is the same.

My question is, since my chip runs hotter to begin with, do I need to cover the whole chip and not just the little pea sized/rice sized ammount?
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KillerBug
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_ 		17. March 2009 @ 05:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
1.) Clean the CPU core and the part of the heatsink that contacts it.
2.) Put a small glob or line of the stuff on top of the cpu core
3.) Get a small, flat piece of plastic...use it to spread the stuff evenely all over the top of the core. Thinner is better; just make sure you have full coverage and you should be OK.
4.) Attach the heatsink
5.) Do a 'burn-in' test...use something like everest to max the CPU load for about a day.

Step 5 is the most important step; it gets the stuff nice and hot so the spring force of the heatsink does a final "flattening" of the paste.
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