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Monday 11th June 2007

Apply TIM

If you’ve been caking your CPU in thermal gunk then you need to follow Antony Leather’s guide to correctly applying TIM.

If you’ve been caking your CPU in thermal gunk then you need to follow Antony Leather’s guide to correctly applying TIM.

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Depends on your system and setup - temp monitors can be very innacurate. The less TIM you use the greater the heat transfer between the CPU and HSF. TIM is designed to fill the microscopic gaps in the metal surfaces not to provide some kind of super conducting layer between the two. I would suggest that the method on the Arctic cooling website will end up with too much but is a quick method. The method I showed here takes a few mins but you'll end up with a much thinner layer and probably better cooling as a result.

Comment by combatus at 7:43pm 17th November 2007

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Arctic Silver 5 / Quad QX6850

A little bit of clarification needed. In the magazine (and your article) you advise placing a small blob of TIM on the cpu and spreading it with your finger yet on arctic's website they state to spread a thin line of compound accross the centre of the quad chip and on no account to spread it with your finger. Who is correct? I used the arctic method spreading a thin line of the paste accross the centre in a line so is this too much?I am getting temperatures of 39-40 idle rising to 55-65 on full load with air cooling!

Comment by bogbrain at 3:20pm 23rd September 2007

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