I was installing my new heat sink and accidentally mixed some arctic silver 5 with the thermal pad that came with the sink. Should I bother removing the heat sink and replacing the grease with just arctic silver? Or does it not really matter?
Clean the sink
The smallest air pocket can mean significantly higher temps.Fearmesnipers wrote:
Clean the sink
Yeah, seeing that it's running a few degrees hotter than the stock fan I think I will. As for cleaning off the old grease I used an alcohol swab last time. Seemed to work ok.
Take a coffee filter and some rubbing alcohol. The coffee filter is lint-free, so you won't leave little pieces of lint and junk on there.
Scrub it good, you want it all off.
Scrub it good, you want it all off.