I just bought a new mobo for my processsor and one of my friends told me I need thermal paste to put it on. Do I really need this before I can replace my old motherboard? and if so are there any major retialers that carry it?
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Thermal paste fills any microscopic voids and covers any tiny gap between the processor and the heatsink. Doing so, the heat produced by the core can be transferred easily compared to a proc. without it. Remember it fill microscopic voids...so make your application a small one ...as thin as a sheet of paper is best. Make sure is just on the core surface and not the whole thing like i have seen from some people that don't know about the thinner is better aplication. DO NOT fill the whole thing with the paste.
P.S. to apply it thin...i place some on the core and grab a "Ziploc " sandwich bag...and spread it of the it and remove any excess.
Hope that covers it..and help.:cheers:- Damien
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Perseus - Just to let you know. It takes Artic Silver 3 a few weeks to soak into the heatsink and to reach maximum heat dissipation levels, so don't be discouraged if your temps don't drop immediately. You will notice your CPU temp will drop within the first week. When I first installed my Volcano 7+, my CPU idle temp was 37c, now it runs idle at 33c.
BTW - If you have a P4 and a stock Intel hsf, they do not use thermal paste, instead, Intel uses a thermal pad that comes factory mounted on the heatsink. This CAN be reused if it is not in bad shape. Sometimes though the pad will rip during removal and it cannot be reused. In this case you will have to use a plastic(NOT METAL) tool of some kind to scrape off the rest of the pad and then apply your thermal grease as instructed.
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Originally posted by mrfinBTW - If you have a P4 and a stock Intel hsf, they do not use thermal paste, instead, Intel uses a thermal pad that comes factory mounted on the heatsink. This CAN be reused if it is not in bad shape. Sometimes though the pad will rip during removal and it cannot be reused. In this case you will have to use a plastic(NOT METAL) tool of some kind to scrape off the rest of the pad and then apply your thermal grease as instructed.
Anyway, remove that stupid little metal pad, and apply some AS3... my :2cents:
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Originally posted by SuicideI completely disagree with your first statement about not using paste on a stock p4 hsf. Remove the stupid little metal pad and apply AS3. Running at stock 2.53 w/ the default hsf w/ the pad... My proc was running around 45 C. Removed it, and applied AS3 (would've applied AS3 first, but it waso n back order), and when temps finally stopepd dropping ('bout 10 days later), temp was at 38 C.
Anyway, remove that stupid little metal pad, and apply some AS3... my :2cents:
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