whats the best thermal paste method

[Majestera]

Whats the best method for x4 860k and hyper 212 evo, whats the best way to do it?

 

[terry4536]

Most people use the BB sized dot in the middle of the chip, then apply the cooler.

 

[Rogue Leader]

drop a half a grain of rice size blob right in the middle of the processor, put the cooler on to it directly, give it a tiny little turn left and right (like 10 degrees), and secure it down. When putting it on do it in 1 perfect motion, don't pull it off or release pressure for any reason until you secure it.

 

[Majestera]

I didnt know if the line or pea would be better, but thanks

 

[Guest]

This is controversial. My way of doing it is to spread it out myself with a piece of scotch tape.

 

[Majestera]

^ what? xD

 

[Guest]

Put a piece of tape on your index finger and spread thermal paste

 

[Rogue Leader]

^ what? xD

That idea he posted is a horrible one, go with a grain of rice or bb size, same thing really. I go with the grain of rice because coming out of a tube its an easier reference shape.

 

[Majestera]

okay

 

[Guest]

As I said, it controversial.

 

[giantbucket]

the BEST method is to solder it together. this way you get metal-to-metal-to-metal contact, instead of metal-to-snot-to-metal contact.

another GREAT way is to wet sand the CPU and underside of heatsink to a smooth flat (or marginally convex) level, and use a grain-of-rice amount of snot.

 

[terry4536]

Smearing the paste out is more likely to produce bubble or voids in the paste when you apply the cooler. This reduces the effectiveness of the CPU cooler. And too much paste makes a mess.

 

[Rogue Leader]

As I said, it controversial.

Its an easy way to create air gaps and get bad adhesion. Its controversial because its terrible advice to give to a newbie to doing the job, and will only end in him having to redo it when his temps are horrible.

 

[Majestera]

thanks to the ones that are helping. lol

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Been building systems for about 15 years. I always put a dot about the size of a grain of rice in the middle of the cpu, spread it with my index finger, and attach the cooler. Not many major problems doing it that way. Plus I know I have a nice even coat on it. You only want a thin layer, too much and you can actually slowly bake your cpu to death if you just slather it on since the paste can actually work as an insulator.

Types of paste, I personally like arctic silver 5. Other guys like different ones, but that's what's worked for me, if it's not broken don't fix it

 

[Majestera]

im getting a new cooler, the hyper 212 evo, is the paste that comes with it good enough?

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Not sure, I don't use it very much. It should be ok. If you wanted to try the arctic silver, it's not expensive.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100007

At first you may get decent temps, but the arctic silver seems to do a little better once you've run the machine and it's cured a little from the heat of the cpu. Haven't used the cooler master stuff a lot, I'm guessing it's probably ok.

 

[Rogue Leader]

im getting a new cooler, the hyper 212 evo, is the paste that comes with it good enough?

The paste it comes with is fine. I've used the included paste with Coolermasters for years with no problems.

 

[terry4536]

Most likely it is fine. Once it is installed, check your CPU temperature. If it is more than around 35 C, you can reapply the paste.

 

[Majestera]

i would have gotten the silver kind but ive already ordered it

 

[giantbucket]

99% of the thermal snot is 99% the same. i just buy whatever is cheapest in a large tube (enough to do 15+ processors)

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Just don't use the white ceramic type glue they used to use on stock cpu's and coolers. I've had that stuff dry up and act like glue to where sometimes you may not be able to separate the heatsink and cpu. The white stuff was almost like toothpaste in consistency.

 

[Majestera]

Well thats whats on it now because the stock cooler so thats gonna be fun getting off

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

A lot of the AMD's actually came with a silverish paste, where I remember seeing white stuff was old OEM systems like from dell, hp etc.

The trick to it is turn on your PC before you remove the old heatsink. Run it for 5-10 minutes, enough to heat up the system. After that, shut down, and remove the old heatsink. It may be warm or hot if your system is running really hot. But you turn on the pc to heat up your CPU so that it will soften the old paste that is there now. A lot of guys say use isophryl alcohol, maybe a little of that on a cloth, or even a cloth itself, just be careful and clean the old stuff off without creating much static. Apply the new paste and the new cooler and all should be happy.

 

[Majestera]

thaanks