Posted: 9/13/2007 1:35:48 PM EDT
If you break that glue seal between the processor and the heat sink, do you need to reseal it or is it fine 
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It's not glue, it's thermal compound, and there's usually entirely too much of it there anyway. If it's the 'pad' thing that came with an OEM one, pick up some silver heatsink compound; bestbuy sells it, comes in a little syringe. Clean all the old gunk off the processor and heatsink, put a little dot of the new stuff about the size of a pimple on the processor, and smear it around to get a uniform very thin coating. One little tube should last you the rest of your life. Just about everyone puts too much on, all it's there to do is fill in the microscopic cracks on the surface of the heatsink and processor die, it isn't meant to be lathered on like butter on toast. 
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Arctic Silver has instructions for application to different CPUs... Link below: www.arcticsilver.com/instructions.htm |