Cpu Fan

[DarthInsinuate]

Originally posted by The Kiler@11 October 2003 - 02:01
I got confused at the manual, it said to take off tape... there is no tape so.....

Well I didn't scratch the soft material off on the new CPU.

my brother did that - he only took off a little bit (with the tip of his fingernail) and it seemed to work fine, but just to make sure he bought a tube of thermal paste

[zapjb]

AFAIK it's dangerous to use both a thermal pad & paste together. One or the other is OK.

[lynx]

It depends on the paste. You can get paste which is more or less the same material as the thermal pads, so it never sets, that is probably ok. But if you use a setting paste with a thermal pad you get a pad which doesn't soften as much as it should, and a paste which doesn't set. The only solution is to remove tha pad completely and use paste (or get a new pad).

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by james_bond_rulez@11 October 2003 - 01:44
the paste is the glue in between the cpu chip and the heat sink

noobies

it's not a glue because it doesn't actually 'stick' the heatsink to the cpu

noobies

[james_bond_rulez]

Originally posted by 3rd gen noob+11 October 2003 - 17:15--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (3rd gen noob @ 11 October 2003 - 17:15)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-james_bond_rulez@11 October 2003 - 01:44
the paste is the glue in between the cpu chip and the heat sink

noobies

it&#39;s not a glue because it doesn&#39;t actually &#39;stick&#39; the heatsink to the cpu

noobies [/b][/quote]