I looked at instructions on Arctic Silver's site for applying thermal compound to a quad-core:
http://www.arcticsilver.com/pdf/appinstruct/as5/ins_as5_intel_quad_wcap.pdf
..that line seems awfully thick/large, and seems quite contradictory to the 1/2 grain of rice rule. Should I really apply that much?
Also, I want to redo the thermal compound on my northbridge (it ships with terrible thermal tape that doesn't do a very good job)...how much do I put on? I heard I need more than on the CPU as the surface isn't nearly as flat.
Thanks.
http://www.arcticsilver.com/pdf/appinstruct/as5/ins_as5_intel_quad_wcap.pdf
..that line seems awfully thick/large, and seems quite contradictory to the 1/2 grain of rice rule. Should I really apply that much?
Also, I want to redo the thermal compound on my northbridge (it ships with terrible thermal tape that doesn't do a very good job)...how much do I put on? I heard I need more than on the CPU as the surface isn't nearly as flat.
Thanks.