this is the heatsink i have bought Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (HS-020-AR) do i need to buy a thermal compound to go with it?? or can i just use it without adding anything??
depends how quickly you wanna fry your cpu! yes, you always need thermal compound, dont waste your money and get cheap stuff either, get some arctic silver and be done!
Yes mate you need paste and Arctic silver is the one to use. Do not be tempted to test/run without it.
ok thanx, better buy some of that arctic silver then. well glad i started this thread lol. when applying arctic silver, do i cover the whole cpu itself or just the gold square in the middle
without fail on every cpu/heatsink i install the very first thing i do is to scrape off the crap compound on it and apply some nice as5, i know it is good stuff then, i wouldnt risk a serious overclock on the stuff that they put on. how do you know what is on it? ive never been able to find anything that tells me!
My preferred method is to cover my finger with a bit of cling film like plastic and then spread a rice grain piece of AS over the CPU.
this man just saved you some very messy fingers! that stuff just doesnt wanna come off does it lol!i wasnt gonna say anything, everyone needs to get thermal compound all over themselves at least once!
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) (AC-000-AC) for use between modern high-power CPUs and high performance heatsinks or water-cooling solutions my heatsink aint high performance, does it matter
1st, the heatsink should come with its own gunk - tube or preapplied. Seems you've bought some AS5 so, makes sure you remove the preapplied thermal compund on the heatsink. Good guide on doing the latter & applying AS5 here
Whateva chip you've got, you still need thermal compound/grease. AS5's just very good at doing the above comapred to others EDIT: Read more
