MarkC1970 Posted May 14, 2022 Report Share Posted May 14, 2022 I have just taken the heatsink of a v1.0, cleaned it up and replaced with MX4. It seem to work OK but the heat sink is not clamped to the CPU at all well. I can rotate it with no trouble and even rock it side to side. Were the original thermal pads adhesive? Were they 1mm thick and I need to now pack the clamp out? Any thoughts? Thanks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnie-Burger Posted May 14, 2022 Report Share Posted May 14, 2022 1 hour ago, MarkC1970 said: I have just taken the heatsink of a v1.0, cleaned it up and replaced with MX4. It seem to work OK but the heat sink is not clamped to the CPU at all well. I can rotate it with no trouble and even rock it side to side. Were the original thermal pads adhesive? Were they 1mm thick and I need to now pack the clamp out? Any thoughts? Thanks. Gpu can slightly move when clamped. CPU should be pretty tight clamped down even with arctic mx 2/4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackedLynx Posted August 19, 2022 Report Share Posted August 19, 2022 On 5/14/2022 at 12:24 PM, MarkC1970 said: I have just taken the heatsink of a v1.0, cleaned it up and replaced with MX4. It seem to work OK but the heat sink is not clamped to the CPU at all well. I can rotate it with no trouble and even rock it side to side. Were the original thermal pads adhesive? Were they 1mm thick and I need to now pack the clamp out? Any thoughts? Thanks. The originals were pads i think. it's too consistently perfectly applied and tacky to be paste. it's normal to be able to move the cpu heatsink by hand after clamping when you changed the paste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prtscn Posted August 19, 2022 Report Share Posted August 19, 2022 on the gpu is used glue like substance. no need to replace it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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