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Do I need Thermal Paste
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Name: Doc7
Date: February 15, 2005 at 18:26:38 Pacific
Subject: Do I need Thermal PasteOS: N/ACPU/Ram: N/A |
Comment: I am building my own PC and want to purchase an AMD FX/51 with the heatsink and fan attached. Do I need to connect this to my motherboard using thermal paste, or since it come's pre-packaged with hs and fan attached is this necessary? Doc
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Response Number 1
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Name: jam
Date: February 15, 2005 at 19:13:50 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If you're talking about a retail CPU that comes packaged with an AMD HSF, there's a thermal pad already attached to the bottom of the heatsink. Just peel off the protective film & install the heatsink. (don't touch the pad) Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8 x 210MHz
512MB PC3200
Asus Ti4200 128MB
WinME/WinXP Pro
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Response Number 2
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Name: Kailas
Date: February 15, 2005 at 19:49:06 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If its the first time you are "fixing" the CPU onto the motherboard and hence the heatsink on the cpu, then the thermal pad that comes with the heat sink will be enough. You must be safe with that.
However for the second and subsequent times you install the HSF, you need to remove the previous paste with some thinner and apply fresh paste. Your temps will get higher w/o the paste. For the temps you will hit w/o paste, you can as well overclock and enjoy your games slightly better (with some neat thermal paste)...
Good Luck and Happy Computing,
Kailas Shastry,
2000+ u/c to 1700+, No thermal paste :
DDR 256MB
10.2GB Samsung SV1022D
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Response Number 3
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Name: Kailas
Date: February 15, 2005 at 19:50:33 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)left the comp on and did some work..came back and posted...had not seen jam's post
Good Luck and Happy Computing,
Kailas Shastry,
2000+ u/c to 1700+, No thermal paste :
DDR 256MB
10.2GB Samsung SV1022D
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Response Number 5
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Name: Kailas
Date: February 18, 2005 at 08:09:37 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)good!
glad to be of help :)
(am also saying this on behalf of jam)
Good Luck and Happy Computing,
Kailas Shastry,
sempron 2400+ u/c to 1.4 GHz, running folding 24X7 56C.
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