apsoul
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I just installed XP Home Edition onto an old system that was given to me. When Installing the CPU I noticed that the TIM was a thermal pad as opposed to paste. My question is if "these little guys" need to be touching the thermal pad (do i need to transfer heat way from "these little guys") because you can see that "these little guys" are touching the thermal pad indicated by the dark spots (those little guys) in the second picture.
These little guys
Those little guys
^Thinking of sanding this down with the 1000 grit paper i've got. The HS looks like it was sanded down with a belt sander using 100 grit paper... very rough on bottom.
I was about to remove the thermal pad, when i noticed "those little guys" and i stopped in case i need to buy a thermal pad in order to remove heat from "these little guys"
Help is much appreciated
I have Tuniq TX-2. Should i apply to all of "these little guys" or just the main center piece? Or do i need a pad?
system specs of this build:
AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 900MHz (100MHz x9)
Compaq O6E4h mobo (prebuilt but has 100/133MHz jumper currently set to 100MHz can i change that?)
20GB Seagate (thats right, Twenty GB haha)
256MB(2x128MB) 100MHz DDR
ATI RAGE XL 8MB GPU
Gateway EV700 17in Monitor
These little guys
Those little guys
^Thinking of sanding this down with the 1000 grit paper i've got. The HS looks like it was sanded down with a belt sander using 100 grit paper... very rough on bottom.
I was about to remove the thermal pad, when i noticed "those little guys" and i stopped in case i need to buy a thermal pad in order to remove heat from "these little guys"
Help is much appreciated
I have Tuniq TX-2. Should i apply to all of "these little guys" or just the main center piece? Or do i need a pad?
system specs of this build:
AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 900MHz (100MHz x9)
Compaq O6E4h mobo (prebuilt but has 100/133MHz jumper currently set to 100MHz can i change that?)
20GB Seagate (thats right, Twenty GB haha)
256MB(2x128MB) 100MHz DDR
ATI RAGE XL 8MB GPU
Gateway EV700 17in Monitor