How to Apply Thermal Paste Correctly
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Correctly installing thermal paste on your CPU cooler is essential is creating strong thermal heat dissipation foryour CPU. So many times I have people emailing me stating that their CPU's are running too hot and come tofind out they recently removed and/or installed a CPU cooler and didn't take the time to apply the thermalpaste properly, or sometimes didn't apply any at all because they didn't realize they needed to.If you've every bought a brand new retail boxed CPU, you notice that the included retail heatsink usually comeswith pre-applied thermal paste on the bottom of the CPU cooler where it would contact the CPU itself duringinstallation. Now if you asked 10 people if they would rather have the thermal paste applied to the heatsinkfirst, or the CPU first, you'd probably have 5 people on each side.Well I can tell you from experience that it doesn't matter if you apply it to the heatsink first or the CPU first, aslong as you don't apply thermal paste to BOTH. That will certainly hurt your temps because you'll end up withtoo much thermal paste between the CPU and heatsink.I'm going to show you how to properly apply thermal paste (in this case "Arctic Silver 5") to a stock retailheatsink that recently came with my new Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. As far as I know it's the same exact heatsinkthat comes with all Intel Pentium-D's also. However the exact heatsink used is not the focus here. What'simportant is that you take notice on how to apply the thermal paste to your particular hardware.
Stock Intel Core 2 Duo Heatsink. Alcohol and Q-tips for cleaning the copper base of the heatsink.
The Alcohol is very important to remove grease and contaminates from the application area prior to spreadingthermal paste on the surface. Just as you would scrape old paint off before you apply new paint. You cansubstitute or interchange Q-tips, tissues or paper towels as long as it's clean and white preferably so you cansee as you're taking contaminates off the surface. Continue cleaning it until you see no more dirt on thecleaning "cloth"
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