Best way to apply thermal paste?

[XP Abuser]

fill it with cement <------ one big heatsink

 

[LeeJend]

Thats one way not to do it. You probably won't get coverage out to the edge of the die. And if you miss say 10% of the die you loose about 10% of your cooling. Also the extra paste in the center actually raises the thermal resistance between the die and the HSF.


Heat removal is proportional to the contact area between the sink and the die. Thats why AMD was in such trouble last spring. They dropped the die surface area on the tbred more than they reduced the heat generated. Suddenly you had to have special HSF for the Tbred's.

 

[Jz1397-5]

Originally posted by Sazar
yah the best way to cool your cpu is to take some ice... chew it in your mouth and spit it onto the cpu before turning it on... it will be extremely cool... for a short while...

then it starts to boil

 

[Geffy]

you could always just have no HSF, cover it in oil and do a fry-up, those fried eggs might take a while, but they'll kepp that temp down