pre applied paste on an AMD heatsink

Drastik

Drastik

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i came to install an amd cpu and the heatsink, when i removed the heatsink from the box there was a plastic cover coving the bottom of the heatsink, is this all that was needed to be removed? is there a plastic sheet to peel off keeping the paste 'active' or this plastic cover that i removed the only cover?

also does the paste activate once the cpu is powered for the first time? i installed this a few days ago, but i have to wait for memory to arrive
 
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Its a change phase material, it "melts" to a liquid(ish) state and then works as a thermal interface material.
 
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Yes. It is. I don't believe there is a "peel off" on it. Never seen one.. Read the heatsink instructions. But yes, it does work immediately.
 
Remember, once you power on with that crappy factory junk, it will get hot and work it's way microscopically into the "pores" of the CPU... then later on, if you remove the heatsink, and want to use a much better thermal compount, like say, Arctic Silver, the Arctic Silver won't be able to work at 100% because that old junk will always be in those microscopic "cracks" and "pores".
I always take new heatsinks, scrape off the factory junk with a credit card or something, then thoroughly clean it with acetone or 91% alcohol to remove all remnants of the old crap, then apply a paper thin layer of Arctic Silver 5 to the contacts (never more than that, Arctic Silver is made from micronized silver, and theoretically is conductive, so you don't want it "squishing" out from the sides of the CPU and falling all over the board).
Just some advice. Do as you wish ;)
 
Damascus said:
Remember, once you power on with that crappy factory junk, it will get hot and work it's way microscopically into the "pores" of the CPU... then later on, if you remove the heatsink, and want to use a much better thermal compount, like say, Arctic Silver, the Arctic Silver won't be able to work at 100% because that old junk will always be in those microscopic "cracks" and "pores".
I always take new heatsinks, scrape off the factory junk with a credit card or something, then thoroughly clean it with acetone or 91% alcohol to remove all remnants of the old crap, then apply a paper thin layer of Arctic Silver 5 to the contacts (never more than that, Arctic Silver is made from micronized silver, and theoretically is conductive, so you don't want it "squishing" out from the sides of the CPU and falling all over the board).
Just some advice. Do as you wish ;)
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lol thanks, i dont think it makes any difference now since iv already fitted the thing. Probably going to be my processor for a few months, the athlons 64's are cheap nowadays
 
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