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Arctic Silver 5 on Heat Spreader

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Little Dump

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I read the instructions on their site and it says to skip tinting with AS5.

So do I basically goto step 10 after I clean it off?

Put a 1/2 BB on my heat spreader and mount the HS?

If not could someone please explain better?

Thanks
 
apply a grain of uncooked rice sized portion of AS5 on the middle of the heat spreader and mount heatsink.. the heatsink will spread the AS5 correctly just from its pressure.
 
I believe with a IHS on your CPU, AS5 says that you dont have to spread it out over the IHS. Just put that amount in the center and mount the HS. I have only mounted one CPU with a IHS with AS5, and it is not OCed one bit so probably doesnt matter much to me.
 
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