Its to take the place of a good thermal paste, and if you can find some,
it'll probably do a better job than the stuff that came on the 'sink.  Put a
dot on the core, spread even;y with a rozor or credit card, then clip on the
HSF.




> Hi all
> I am just building a system comprising of an AMD Duron 700 MHz cpu. This
> question maybe basic but because of that fact not documented anywhere I
> have looked. I have an appropriate collermaster Socket A 1.2 Ghz amd
approved
> heatsink. This has a plaster like tab bit to pull off on the centre of the
> fan to cpu side (like when replacing a printer cartridge), obviously
> desinged
> to pull a protective plastic strip off and leave something on the fan. My
> problem is in pulling this tab the whole thing has come of, So can anyone
> tell me what was supposed to be still left on the fan? What is it there
> for?
> and do I need it on there? in which case I will have to return the fan,
> which
> was mail ordered with the other parts. The fan obviously sits on the four
> circle raised supports on the cpu, without this bit is there going to be a
> gap between the base of the fan and the centre of the CPU? Is this going
to
> cause a heat problem?
> Thanks for any help.
> Ray Pamment in the UK
>
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