I7 920 cpu

AusLinda

AusLinda

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well yesterday i got all my stuff as in my sig, apart from the heatsink.

Basically all i wanted to ask when i place my cpu then i place my heat sink the intel cpu cooler that has the compound on it, does it dry off or something? cause i had to take both the cpu and cool cause i done a mistake. any harm done to the compound? cause i'm hopeing to put it together together without and hassels.
 
Did you run your system already. The heat of the processor will harden the past somewhat from teh stock cooler. But if you just put it on and took it off - you could be ok.

I'd clean off the old thermal compound and put a new coat on. Just takes some 90+ % rubbing alcohol - and you can get some Arctic Silver 5 at Radio shack for about 5 bucks.

If you decide not to clean it off - I'd make sure to Download Core Temp - to monitor the temp of your CPU cores to make sure they're not running too warm.
 
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yep i didn't run it yet was just installingthe part son the mother board then relised i might as well put it in the case as i never done it before and i wouldn't wanna risk poushing down on something causing it to dmg but thats good i also had my air con on at the time i hope it helped out as well :X
anyways cheers for the advice
 
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