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beitzel15   11-16-2009 at 04:50:31 PM

It's been a while since I built a pc and I dont really remember every step I took...

When applying thermal paste to the cpu, I know you completley cover the cpu with a light coat, but do you put a light coat, covering the bottom of the cpu cooler? I will not be using a stock cooler. Im using a cooler master hyper 512.

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------------------------------ E8500 @ 3.60GHz,
XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 cpu heatsink, 4gigs G.Skill Ram, 640gig HD, XFX GTX 285 Black Edition, Corsair TX650 psu, Gigabyte UD3R mobo, NZXT Tempest.
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beitzel15   11-16-2009 at 11:51:02 PM

anyone?

------------------------------ E8500 @ 3.60GHz,
XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 cpu heatsink, 4gigs G.Skill Ram, 640gig HD, XFX GTX 285 Black Edition, Corsair TX650 psu, Gigabyte UD3R mobo, NZXT Tempest.
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Silver Home Brew badge hunter315   11-16-2009 at 11:54:35 PM

you want to put a small drop in the middle and let the CPU cooler push it out so that it ends up covering the CPU, the light coat needs to be super thin. Too much thermal paste will actually hurt heat transfer.

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Silver Home Brew badge shortstuff_mt   11-16-2009 at 11:59:57 PM

Here's a nice article about how to install thermal paste on direct touch coolers.

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index. [...] mitstart=0

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