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Hi All,
I'm going to be building a new system, and i need some help regarding the heatsink and cooling compound:
When you get a new heatsink, they come with a kind of heatsink compound already attached; where you have to pull off the sticky plastic tape and attach to the processor immediately. Now, i'm going to be using the Arctic Silver II thermal compund (you can get this from www.overclockers.co.uk ). So anyway, what do i do?
Do i have to pull of the sticky tape from the heatsink and apply the Arc. Silver II on top of it and then fix onto processor? OR Do i have to completely remove the ready-attached compound on the heatsink and then apply Arc. Silver II?
Also, where do you apply the compound? The heatsink or the CPU, or both??
Any help would be greatly appreciated I've built systems before, but before the heatsinks used to be already attached to processors.
Anyway, FYI the system i'm building is this:
AMD Athlon-c 1.33GHz Processor (266FSB)
Copper Shin + Arctic Silver II + Alpha FC-PAL6035MUC Heatsink
Asus A7M266 Motherboard
2X 256MB DDR2100 (Crucial)
IBM DTLA307030 (30GB)
Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS 32MB
CL SBlive! Value
etc etc.
I'm going to be building a new system, and i need some help regarding the heatsink and cooling compound:
When you get a new heatsink, they come with a kind of heatsink compound already attached; where you have to pull off the sticky plastic tape and attach to the processor immediately. Now, i'm going to be using the Arctic Silver II thermal compund (you can get this from www.overclockers.co.uk ). So anyway, what do i do?
Do i have to pull of the sticky tape from the heatsink and apply the Arc. Silver II on top of it and then fix onto processor? OR Do i have to completely remove the ready-attached compound on the heatsink and then apply Arc. Silver II?
Also, where do you apply the compound? The heatsink or the CPU, or both??
Any help would be greatly appreciated I've built systems before, but before the heatsinks used to be already attached to processors.
Anyway, FYI the system i'm building is this:
AMD Athlon-c 1.33GHz Processor (266FSB)
Copper Shin + Arctic Silver II + Alpha FC-PAL6035MUC Heatsink
Asus A7M266 Motherboard
2X 256MB DDR2100 (Crucial)
IBM DTLA307030 (30GB)
Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS 32MB
CL SBlive! Value
etc etc.