On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:46 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a busy week, I finally got around to buying some Arctic Silver 5 to > use on my new Dell system that fails the Prime95 torture test. I plan to > start by using it on the heat sink that came with the system, but I'm a > little apprehensive. The AS5 instructions point out that a processor can > damage itself very quickly if it doesn't have proper cooling. How much of a > risk am I taking by doing this? Are there any hidden snags that could leave > me with a dead chip that I'll have to pay for myself? And can anyone > recommend some good online guides for this sort of task? > > Thanks for your time. > > I just had to replace the heat sink on my north bridge. I cut a little spatula out of the plastic the Arctic Silver came with and used it to spread the compound on the chip. That seems to have worked very well.
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