Quick questions -
First off, what's the best material to use to clean up Arctic Silver that went awry? Preferably, something that I can get at Walmart and not something I have to order online.

Second (And this question doesn't mean that I *have* done this, because I don't personally own an AMD chip):
Are any of you using TIM on your Athlon cores, or are you all sticking with the thermal interface pad that generally comes on the heatsink?

Third, and finally, to those of you who have lapped their Athlon cores, do you have any problem with the reduced height of the core versus the height of the HSF supports on the edge of the CPU package?

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Question 1: Check this site out for cleaning, installing, etc.

http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_...nstructions.htm

Question 2: Half and half.

Question 3: Hopefully you would have to lap it that much to
make a height difference. If so, you have one bad cpu there.

I've lapped several and had no problems with the heatsink mounting.

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Lapping flip-chip cores is generally a bad idea - it's easy to go a 'lil too far and sand away the core . Heatsinks definetly.....but you guys are lapping the cores? I can see lapping heatspreaders...but the core?

I thought it was a pretty unsafe idea myself, but who ever said the guys at HardOCP were safe?
That is, of course, where I first read about lapping FC-PGA and Socket A processors, since they don't have the core heat spreader slugs like the Celeron, P2, and K6-2/3 did.

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Yeah, no kidding....I always made sure to save the pics of any/everything that was set on fire from over there . Of course, I lost most of them in a HD crash, but that's another story ....

hardocp unsafe?

Its not like Kyle has killed 6 top of the line T-Birds over there....

(on second thought, he did, nevermind me, I wasn't here...)

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