Today I will be teaching you how to remove thermal paste from your heatsink and processor. Usually people will replace their paste 6-12 months, as paste dries out and temperatures rise!
What you will need:
Isopropyl Alcohol:
At least 70% is needed, 90% if possible. This can be purchased from almost every pharmacy and supermarket, mine is from Walgreens.
This is used to remove the paste from the processor and cooler, be careful not to spill any!
Paper Towels:
These are dabbed in the Alcohol and rubbed on the cooler/processor to remove the Old Paste!
Thermal Paste:
This is to increase the thermal conductivity between the processor and heatsink by filling in microscopic holes between that are on the heatsink and processor.
Whenever a cooler is removed from a processor, new paste needs to be applied. I will be using Arcrtic Silver 5 for todays cooler installation.
Heatsink:
This can be your previous one, or a new one! I will be using the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Review/Performance: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/cm_hyper212_evo/
For those of you wondering, I am using an Aerocool Shark 120mm Fan on the 212 EVO with the stock Fan that comes with the EVO as well in a push pull configuration!
Aerocool Shark 120mm Fan Performance Compared to Other 120mm Fans:
The review uses an AMD Black Edition 965 overclocked to 3.9ghz with a Noctua NH-D14.
What you will need:
Isopropyl Alcohol:
At least 70% is needed, 90% if possible. This can be purchased from almost every pharmacy and supermarket, mine is from Walgreens.
This is used to remove the paste from the processor and cooler, be careful not to spill any!
Paper Towels:
These are dabbed in the Alcohol and rubbed on the cooler/processor to remove the Old Paste!
Thermal Paste:
This is to increase the thermal conductivity between the processor and heatsink by filling in microscopic holes between that are on the heatsink and processor.
Whenever a cooler is removed from a processor, new paste needs to be applied. I will be using Arcrtic Silver 5 for todays cooler installation.
Heatsink:
This can be your previous one, or a new one! I will be using the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Review/Performance: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/cm_hyper212_evo/
For those of you wondering, I am using an Aerocool Shark 120mm Fan on the 212 EVO with the stock Fan that comes with the EVO as well in a push pull configuration!
Aerocool Shark 120mm Fan Performance Compared to Other 120mm Fans:
The review uses an AMD Black Edition 965 overclocked to 3.9ghz with a Noctua NH-D14.