How To Build Your Own PC: Three Part Series

[zipp51]

Yes that's way way way too much grease should be a very thin coat spread evenly across the core

I agree, way too much.I follow the artic silver tutorial where you wipe the chip and heatsink with alcohol,then with a clean plastic baggie,apply onto the heatsink,then wipe it off with a clean cloth.Then with a credit card smooth out a thin coat of paste on the cpu.

[lynchknot]

I agree, way too much.I follow the artic silver tutorial where you wipe the chip and heatsink with alcohol,then with a clean plastic baggie,apply onto the heatsink,then wipe it off with a clean cloth.Then with a credit card smooth out a thin coat of paste on the cpu.

what? I cleaned with alcohol pad, applied arctic silver then popped one of my whiteheads and rubbed the "arctic-sliver" in with my finger. That was Fastgame's method

[efc]

I use a this process to prepare my heatsink before installation. LINK