Regarding installing a cpu and HSF those go on easy enough. Make you get a tube of Artic Silver 5 and prep the surfaces of the top of the cpu and bottom of sink with some denatured alcohol or very close to insure there is nothing on those surfaces. On a new cpu and HSF you shouldn't see anything to worry about cleaning off.
Once you drop the cpu into the one way insertion socket and bring down the lever you apply a glob about the size of a pea or roughly a 5/16" area sees a large drop. You don't need 1/2 a tube since this will spread evenly across the newer models cpus. The older Socket A and others saw a rise where the compound would kind of separate around it rather then keeping covered at times. The Antec thermal compound tried here recently with a higher temp tolerance would stay to slippery instead of firming up after a few days of use. Once the AS5 went on the same cpu cooler due to the ceramic mix with silver compound things firmed up a little and temps dropped down far lower. The actual gap between hsf and the top of the cpu should be about the thickness of a piece of aluminum foil if that. Monitor the temps for a few days after to make the right amount was applied.
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