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.
Not a good idea. You risk voids that way. You want a single blob
which gradually spreads out, forcing all air out ahead of it. When
you are through, you want a thin, uniformly thick, void free coat
of thermal grease in full contact with both the CPU and he heat
sink. To get this, you want a single thickest point from which
the grease spreads. Having multiple points of initial contact
results in multiple "blobs" spreading toward each other. When
they meet, air gets trapped between them.
Mike
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