How To: Apply Artic Silver 5 (Intel Core2Duo CPUs)

[Sadik0gungor91]

What a loser

He is getting 2 drups thermal on it and filming it 30 seconds.

Get a life

[BadassDZ]

That was fucking awesome.

[torontoraps8]

what;s with the 0.0000001 MP camera

[arnie1242]

Poor quality.  Don't make excuses, delete and redo. If you do not have the right equipment then why are you trying to do crappy video.

[RickArter]

@arnie1242 This video is 2 years old check my channel and computertechtv for newer better quality video on this.

[asus3571]

hey bro if thsts a quad then u did it wrong read as5 site it says for quad is vertical not horizontal

[Taizara]

Where can i buy Arctic silver 5 other than radio shack?

[RealFan]

Fry's.

[dingo27mobile]

@Taizara write stupid questions like this into google

[soulman902]

Another line idiot. Why are there so many of you that believe just a line will do it. It will not and you won't get the surface covered properly.

[RickArter]

I really need to remake this video and show all the ways b/c it really doesn't matter as long as its not too much or too little your fine. I made this almost 2 years ago give me a break I have learned a lot and not just put a small drop in center and good to go.

[soulman902]

@RickArter Sure, that would be great

[Tomatis]

dude the company who makes the shit says you supose to use the "line" i trust them, and furthermore if you smoot it out you get airbubbles

[jkashuba07]

yea dude line is the best way, the cores dont reach out to the edge of the metal, so when you get a nice amount of silver in line format, the weight of the heat sink will spread it out til its covering the cores... pick up your heatsink after mounting it and find out for yourself. the only other thing ive seen and i believe arctic says to do so to is if you can twist heatsink back and forth a little bit.

[PGTMan]

Nice vid. So many people seem to think that you have to put loads of thermal compound on, practically plastering it on. One of the reasons I love AS5 is you don't need a lot and it also makes it easier to clean when you refit or put a new HSF on!

[Replicator87]

Wrong. You have to put vertical, not horizontal line. Other than that, line method is the right one. Also, line has to be 1/5" from the sides on both ends, in other words a little longer.

[asus3571]

if you look on arctics site he is doing it the right way i used the spreed it all over the core method not sure witch is best

[Replicator87]

The method on Arctic's website shows 1 small line application to be the best, and I have to agree with them. Spreading will cause too much insulation, resulting in much higher idle temps.

[Tomatis]

no you get airbubbels thats why :)

[smartarse001]

NOT ENOUGH.

[halladere]

If u turn on Macro on your cam, then the vid will luck much better

[Bartjebart2]

if you read the instructions on the Artic website, they tell you to apply it in the other direction (90 degrees different from what you did)...

[RickArter]

Its thermal paste get over it I did this lonfg ago and do it totally diff way now a bad ass cooler helps a bunch with good temps more then some TIM.

[enzo1st]

@RickArter so if it's old and misleading why are you still keeping the video? delete it

[Intelpentium54321]

Thanks This is really helpful for when I go and do mine.

[RickArter]

25,000 views sweet

[pn0yb0iProductions]

Two words.

Macro Button.

[BarricadeSlade]

This video isn't that old...

[uglyfly222]

do u have to use Thermal Compound what happens if u dont use it

[batteryjl]

teh cpu over heats and it fry's which wil cost about another 200 bucks thats if teh mother doesn't fry along. with motherboard maybe 600 easly.

[roflcap]

It is possible to not have to use a thermal paste/grease, but it's advised especially with newer processors.

It basically fills in gaps that your heat-sink and cpu leave in the middle (because nothing is perfectly flat) thus improving heat transfer.

[SpongyBubbles]

I understand it's old, but it's not like focus adjustment wasn't available back then.

[RickArter]

Yes actually if you read all comments I said b4 I think this was long ago things have changed. What vids you got I will go see be back. BTW didnt watch vids back then just threw them up but now more dedicated as most will see and tell you.

[Quinny2kEva]

Sort the focus on your camera. Not very informative. Pretty useless.

[c3h89]

If he only has digital auto-focus he's sol. Manuel is alwase best

[RickArter]

WOW the less paste the better it almost doesn't matter which way you do it really.

[c3h89]

If you read the arctic silver manuel it says "about half a grain of rice"

[endemion06463]

This is crap. you should spread it over the entire heatsink/contact area as evenly as possible with a scraping thickness (use creditcard or something similar). This method can easily create bubbles of air isolating instead of conducting.

[Nasty0suicide]

Not really. You should make a small line in the middle of it vertically or horizontally depending of if its a dual or a quad core.

[endemion06463]

No, you want the cpu's heatspreader to be in contact with the metal of the cooler as much as possible. So u apply a thin layer of paste just to fill out the imperfections on both surfaces. If u use a line (this guy here makes more like 2 dots, even worse) u eighter end up using to much or to little paste. Too little leaving the edges with air in between, too much could cause insulation.

[Nasty0suicide]

It'll get spreaded evenly when its under pressure. Even those thermal tapes that are placed @ the factory dont cover the whole heatspreader. If you spread it, it WILL make small airbubbles beetween the processor and the heatsink bottom.

ps. I might be wrong, im not an expert.

[endemion06463]

I agree that a line can spread nice and evenly. but besides to much or to little u'll get a bit of a "cloth" in the middle. If u spread it u have to apply the cooling element with a twisting motion to minimize air bubbles getting in there. Maybe that there r some molecules of air left in between but it's still better than leaving air in between the corners and edges.

ps. That's just my opinion and hey it also works without any paste (best paste to use Coollaboratory Liquid Pro).

[Nasty0suicide]

:)))

[BakaKamasama]

The official AS5 instructions actually say NOT to spread it yourself.

[endemion06463]

I know. But that could very well be a fool proof method and not an optimum method.

[hoodooyoo]

What optimum method? The line running the length of the die that AS dictates in the instructions, spreads itself when the push pins put pressure on the heatspreader.

It spreads it into a thin layer with a oval shape which perfectly covers the die with no excess. Any more than the thin line or pre-spreading it leads to trapped air and/or spill over.

Letting the pressure do the work is far more efficient, this is the optimum method to do it.

[endemion06463]

Do whatever you want. At this moment I really don't care much about applying such paste. I have way more serious things to worry about. However you do it it's not like it's gonna make like a 10 degree difference.

[RickArter]

10,000 people watched this lol

[ChopperX]

including me yay

[Gihaal]

I didn't lol

[Macstar55]

Your applying the line in the wrong direction. To apply correctly draw the line from one notch on the CPU to the other you are drawing it in the opposite direction.

- Artic Silver

[stevewins914]

:DDDD

[RickArter]

Sorry this was done months ago I have learned and do it a whole diff way and temps are fine.

[snowlothar]

Perfect visual on the recomended method for an intel duo from arctic silver. Just remember to rotate the heat sink a couple of degrees back and forth after it is placed on the cpu with light pressure.

[RickArter]

Yes and do not lift it off after you put it on.

[AZNT3O]

so, no need to apply some on the heatsink?

[cutekittyo0]

no the heatsink sospreads it out and you only need a littly tiny bit

[RickArter]

Some apply very thin haze of AS5 or whatever TIM and a small rice sized drop in middle and as the rest goes......

[satanicWorkshiper]

ASUS main broad..!!

[RickArter]

P5K-E Wi-Fi p35 chipset crossfire support

[nofaithingovatall]

This is how they tell you to do it on the arctic silver website

[UkCobra]

i all way put about the same amount you did maybe less the side of a BB and spread it out very very thin and even its much better that way heatsink doesnt spread it to even and just leave a to much in the center i all so used Artic Cooling MX-2 its really good paste

[Bobobearx]

never tried this method before, i follow the technique of using that little brush with zalman thermal paste and i dip it once with a light coating then i apply/spread evenly only on the cpu. i believe that the purpose of the thermal paste is for the inperfectious part (the holes and small flaws) of the cpu and metal to metal contact is the best way to transfer the heat but the thermal paste is to fill the flaws of those little holes so there isn't any heat pockets.

Good video on your tech :)

[sredniv]

Is that all? Don't you have to spread it?

[RickArter]

Heatsink spreads it when mounted and tightened down. Several ways to do it this is one.

[Oesoto]

Awful. It didn't explain anything!

[RickArter]

You saw how to apply it or did you look away? sorry there are some other people who are assholes who comment stuff that does not need to be said.

[111olbap]

DAMN I've been using the whole tube all these years (jks)

[RickArter]

I have seen stupid people who have used almost as much.

[111olbap]

Like the people who make XBOX360s. Ever seen the freakin mess they make?

[joepic85]

i guess that was your old camera.. it looks like its nearsided, some rec specs would do the trick

[SadisticGuy]

Try putting some glasses on the camera next time.!

[halladere]

Cool... See my videos to... See my Intel pentium 4 HT 775 istallation video.

[Neosferaku]

actually the video quality sucks dick..

[bkjoelover]

indian dick, that is.

[RickArter]

thanks I know.

[haze420purple]

what the fuck was that for you don't explain shit fucking asshole

[JLFilmz]

it actually explained a lot....

Thanks Rick

[RickArter]

Glad there is an intelligent person here thanks man.

[JLFilmz]

I dont think Oesoto knows what "Artic Silver" is... because the video makes sense with the title

[RickArter]

Thanks theres more where that came from do not worry.

[sublime0]

No way lol.. I thought that you put it on your tongue and the turned the computer on for 1 hour with no heatsink annd then began licking the 80C cpu lolz! Nice video man lol!