if the thermal paste isn't in 100% in contact with the chip and heat-sink?
Ok, i upgraded to a coolmaster elite 430, and noticed my north bridge temps had gone up by nearly 20degrees C, it is now idleing at about 51C. This morning i took off the heat sink and re-applied some thermal paste, getting the retention hooks back in was abit tricky as i have a Zalman cnps9900nt cpu heat-sink and its pretty large, Thus i think, unsettling the paste i had just re-applied.
the mobo is an asus P5KPL/1600 and my north bridge heat sink Never got over 35C in the older case
has any one got any tips for applying thermal paste? I know for a cpu chip you put a small pea sized bit on and then spread it with, say an old credit card, but for chip sets, im assuming its less then that.
Oh yeah, FLY, thermal paste really doesn't taste good. >.<
Ok, i upgraded to a coolmaster elite 430, and noticed my north bridge temps had gone up by nearly 20degrees C, it is now idleing at about 51C. This morning i took off the heat sink and re-applied some thermal paste, getting the retention hooks back in was abit tricky as i have a Zalman cnps9900nt cpu heat-sink and its pretty large, Thus i think, unsettling the paste i had just re-applied.
the mobo is an asus P5KPL/1600 and my north bridge heat sink Never got over 35C in the older case
has any one got any tips for applying thermal paste? I know for a cpu chip you put a small pea sized bit on and then spread it with, say an old credit card, but for chip sets, im assuming its less then that.
Oh yeah, FLY, thermal paste really doesn't taste good. >.<