Building a PC is a many-step process, but one in particular stands out as being intimidating to first-timers: properly mounting a CPU and cooler. Why? Because, generally speaking, that one little cpu ...

Thermaltake is taking the art of applying thermal paste to a CPU and turning it into a paint-by-numbers game, just with a single number for gray. Oh, and a honeycomb template, so as you're going all ...

Noctua has shared guidelines for applying its latest NT-H2 thermal paste. Seasoned PC enthusiasts and DIYers might feel they don’t need any thermal paste application guides; however, this guide is one ...

Just picked up a used PIII Coppermine FCPGA. I have a HSF for this processor and so I went out to my local Radio Shack and picked up some heat sink compound. The directions say to use a "thin coat." ...

this article at Spode's abodeseems intresting, basicaly it suggests diluting the paste somehow to allow it to be 'squashed out' by the pressure of the heatsink on the ...

Thermal paste, also known as heat sink paste or thermal compound, is a thermally conductive material designed to improve heat transfer from your laptop's GPU and CPU to the heat sink. If you take a ...