how to apply thermal paste

[Jerums]

how do i apply thermal paste? do i put it on the HSF, or on the chip itself? are there any special techniques or things i should not do? the compound is arctic silver II

 

[jc14all]

Here are the instructions for applying <A HREF="http://www.arcticsilver.com/instruction_pdfs.htm" target="_new">Artic Silver</A> in PDF format, so you can do a save as to you HDD if you like.

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