dualcore and arctic silver

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kingdomwinds

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do you need to apply more arctic silver for dual core cpus? I ordered a 165 and plan to overclock it. Im wondering if this is necessary since the core is larger
 
no u only need a bb size drop of the paste in the center of the CPU
 
I've heard (and actually did it myself) to put a tiny about (like you mentioned ALL4AMD) but then take a razor blade to spread it across the whole top then apply the HSF...

I assume this ISNT bad correct?
 
you need enough to make a circle in the center of the ihs just touching the outside edges.
 
UltraJounin said:
I've heard (and actually did it myself) to put a tiny about (like you mentioned ALL4AMD) but then take a razor blade to spread it across the whole top then apply the HSF...

I assume this ISNT bad correct?
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the heat will thin out the paste and the presure will squeeze it outwords to the correct thickness. how do i know this when i run an AXP machine? its cuz i have to keep replacing stupid dell GX270 motherboards due to bad caps :mad: and sometimes pull it all back out cuz that board will be DOA and the paste will be spread out. but back to what u said i think that may create air pockets. i wouldn't know as i have always followed AS directions.
 
I generally just apply a blob of paste, push down the HSF, and check to see where it's making contact. I put some more in the areas it isn't making contact, and test fit it again until the whole heatspreader is contacting the heatsink. Maybe a little overkill, but it works. I get about 40C load with my P4 2.6C at 3GHz on a Thermalright SI-120.
 
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