CPU Paste?

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phishy

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My CPU Fan already has a thin layer of paste on it, should I bother putting some on the cpu or just leave whats on the CPU Fan and continue installing hardware?

Also, am I supposed to remove those little bendy things on the I/O Shield that came with my motherboard? If so how? Just bend back and forth till they come off?
 
If you are going to run the stock heat sink/fan that comes along with the cpu that will have an adhesive to hold down the sink seen with a thermal pad. That's never the best there. For adding a third party cooler you would then look at a thermal paste like Artic Silver 5 or conssider the epoxy based Liquid Pro for a one time application there. That means sanding the compound off if you go for the higher silver particle count in LPro. AS5 can be cleaned off with basically rubbing alcohol to reuse the hsf with a fresh application.
 
phishy said:
My CPU Fan already has a thin layer of paste on it, should I bother putting some on the cpu or just leave whats on the CPU Fan and continue installing hardware?

Also, am I supposed to remove those little bendy things on the I/O Shield that came with my motherboard? If so how? Just bend back and forth till they come off?
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If your going to use the the compound that came on the heatsink (dont) apply more to the CPU

No you dont (have) to remove them.
 
PC eye said:
If you are going to run the stock heat sink/fan that comes along with the cpu that will have an adhesive to hold down the sink seen with a thermal pad. That's never the best there.
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PCeye the thermal Pad on about all Intels and AMD plus Aftermarket heatsinks is not adhesive to hold down the heatsink, its just that, a thermal pad.
 
Thanks, I read the information booklet that came with my CPU and Fan and it says adhesive is already applied :P
 
Once you peel the tape and press down you usually can't pull it back off afterwards since that will leave the adhesive portion stuck to the top of the cpu. That's another drawback with preformed thermal pads there. The adhesive is simply to hold the sink until the compound mixed with it bonds after a period of use.
 
Adhesive compound is only used for motherboard chipset and video card memory where you have no way to hold down the heatsink. You do not want to use it on a CPU/Heatsink. CPU heatsinks come with a applied thermal compound pad. Some instructions might call it by adhesive compound but 99% of the time its not. Dont be telling people to put Thermal adhesive on there CPUs


What is Thermal Adhesive?
Don't confuse Thermal Adhesive/Epoxy with thermal grease. Thermal Epoxy is an extremely strong and permanent adhesive that can be used to apply heatsinks to vga and motherboard chipsets when there's no mounting hardware. Thermal adhesive is NEVER used on a CPU. You can always identity epoxy/adhesive because it comes in two seperate tubes that have to be mixed together for it to adhere.
 
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Most newer video card Heatsink and fans are mounted through the card with screws now. You just unscrew them from the back side. Alot of older cards just used Thermal adhesive and glued them to the gpu and memory.
 
PC eye said:
Once you peel the tape and press down you usually can't pull it back off afterwards since that will leave the adhesive portion stuck to the top of the cpu.
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StrangleHold said:
Dont be telling people to put Thermal adhesive on there CPUs.
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Apparently you don't read too well do you? "Once you peel the tape" isn't the same as applying a thermal compound on a stock hsf especially on the older model cpus. :rolleyes:
 
PC eye said:
Apparently you don't read too well do you? "Once you peel the tape" isn't the same as applying a thermal compound on a stock hsf especially on the older model cpus. :rolleyes:
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Your the one calling Thermal Compound a Adhesive and its not, even if its preapplied on the heatsink with tape or a plastic cover on it or even if the instructions call it that, its still a compound. Thermal Adhesive is used for chipsets-video gpus and memory that has no way of holding down a heatsink! Quit trying to side track.
 
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