Jon Strayer wrote: > 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. >
I gather you didn't read the arctic silver instructions, then? http://www.arcticsilver.com/ins_route_step2intelas5.html they specifically say to put a single "BB" sized dot in the middle of the heatspreader on the CPU and let the heatsink installation pressure take care of the spreading, or for the newer dual/quad core CPUs, you make a thin line of it in the proper orientation, and again let the heatsink pressure spread the good. the reason you do this is to prevent air bubbles from being trapped in the goo. _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
