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@lazerking wrote:

Hey,

So I just replaced the thermal grease on my 8200 and now the thing gets hotter than before!?!?, so I'm assuming that I've done something wrong with it. Here's what I did:

 

I took out the heatsink and cleaned it up. Under the heatsink was a green square with a black smaller square in the center which was raised. I'm assuming its the cpu. I cleaned the area and applied arctic silver 5 just to the black square part. I then cleaned the bottom of the heatsink and then placed it back on.

 

Did I put the grease on in the wrong place, or am I supposed to put it some where else? or of anyone has another suggestion to help cool my system that would be great.

 

Oh, by the way, I did notice that when I removed the heatsink again to see why it was hotter now, I noticed that the grease was kinda pushed to the edges of the raised black part of the chip. I'm not applying any pressure to the heatsink or anything, so I'm wondering if that's the problem and how I would fix it.

I usually stay away from things unless I really know what I'm doing, and have done the research first....But, did you put too much arctic silver on or just the very small thin coating, as I have heard that is only needed ?  If the arctic silver is now pushed to one side of the cpu, that in my humble opinion is not good, and a thin coating over the entire cpu is needed....Someone else correct me, and can weigh in on this, but lazerking, you should read up on this prior to messing with it.  It seems you don't even know what a cpu looks like. Sorry for being blunt, but get some expert advise first before the work is performed or it could cost you money to fix it.....

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@jocase wrote:
Check info at http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm

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