ifl-90 arctic silver question.

hey. i'm getting ready to put arctic silver 5 on my ifl-90. i tried to take the heat sink off and it was really tight on there. tight enough i was nervous about taking it off. anyone have experience with this? how should i take it off without messing things up?

 

you mean tight as in stuck to the cpu die? very gently give it a slight twist fom side to side it will start to loosed up after a few times then it should come right off make 100% sure to get all the old thermal tape off of there or your temps will most likely be worse than before and use only a tiny amount of as a little goes a long way to much as and again your temps will actually rise

 

thanks. good suggestion. i'm a bit twisted about the thermal tape thing. do i clean the heat sink down to the metal? or do i leave the pad that is on there (so tightly stuck to the cpu/gpu)? hahaha... i really am not sure what i'm doing here.

 

you need to clean all of the old pad off of the heatsink and cpu. You should be able to see copper on the bottom of the sink.
If you have to scrape the old pad off, be careful not to nick the copper too much (scratches lessen the efficiency of the heat transfer). After getting everything off, clean it with a lint free rag and some high quality rubbing alcohol.

 

yep correct you can use a plastic tool or a old credit card or simply your finger nail. use some rubbing alch. this will make i much easier. make sure its spotless then apply a TINY amount of as and spread it evenly over the cpu die with the edge of a credit card or a small straight plastic tool. you should only have to use a spot about half the size of a piece of long grain rice. no more

 

crazy. thanks, guys. i will give this a try when i can get the head sink off. the damn thing is so tight on there i don't know if i want to pull hard enough to pry it away!!!

 

Off topic: you ordered your fl90 trough sager right? Because I asked them about the lid sticker, they told me to give my s/n and address but they can't find my lappy in their records... Do I explain them that it 's a compal barebone or I fake the s/n...?

 

no i didnt tell them i got it from them, i said i have a ifl90 and i need the badge. the guy that helped me was fine with it he didnt even ask for the serial..i also got one for my 5791...

 

By the way, you can hit it up with Intel TAT and then try to pull it off while it is still hot. It should come off much easily.

 

or use a thin piece of fishing line and gently slide it under the heatsink to cut through it use a sawing motion back and forth and be gentle