Somethin REAL basic.
Well, I'm goin' for an A+ cert. with a friend of mine and I just need to know one simple thing:
How much thermal compound do you use when attaching a heatsink to a CPU (or any chip for that matter)?
How much thermal compound do you use when attaching a heatsink to a CPU (or any chip for that matter)?
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Think of the older CPUs, look at apicture of like an AMD K6-2 series (any one of those). The metal heatspreading plate on top get coveredwith a thin layer of compuond or a thermally conductive pad is used. The ones I work on-- there are a few-- from the older era get the pad removed and a small amount of Arctic Silver II or ThermalTake silver bearing paste. The new ones get better paste and very tiny amounts because only the little center core gets covered on Athlons that are not Opteron kinds of CPU (those have gone back to the metal heat-spreading plate) and thus should not be called Athlons. Pentium 4's are kinda like the K6-2's-- they get a thin layer of the better paste all over top of metal plate and NO thermal pad. Do not lap CPU top plate, either, only possibly bottom of heat sink if paste does not fill in tiny grooves (which is why paste is better, grooves make for air pockets which make for uneven cooling). Fill grooves with a conductive paste and you have more even cooling again.
Yes, you get to learn at least two sets of paste rules and relate to what CPU to know what answer to give. Look for answer that most closely looks like this logic for the CPU they talk about in question.
John Danielson.
And do I cover the entire top part of the CPU or just the core?
Omg lol.. /mode #icrontic +newb Ninja-kreon2
the credit card trick works every time, and yes you will be able to apply a little dab with a tube of as3.
Not only for the A+. I'm planning on buying a new mobo/proc for this box come my 18th.