What to do for thermal paste on a CPU that has a hole on the plate?

[kenwas]

hi

I asume its not safe to have thermal past over flow in to the hole on the cpu ...

Its on the corner wear the arow(<)(sorry cant spell) indicator is.
The hole is about 1/16th inch across .

What do I do.

I fell real dumb 4 asking this.Seeing there's many post on applying thermal past .

 

[CamaroMullet]

So it's in one of the holes in the motherboard socket?

 

[gwailo247]

what cpu do you have?

some older CPUs came with holes, I'm sure the manufacturers expected that thermal paste would get on them.

 

[kenwas]

the chip is a celeron SL5VR.

it originally had the thermal pad .I cleaned the chip.

So it's in one of the holes in the motherboard socket?

no its a hole on the chip (cpu) kinda locks like a heat shroud.

 

[Arris]

That hole?

 

[kenwas]

That hole?

ha.. >_< ya sorry for the delay.
so do I avoid it or fill it up lol

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

No need to "fill it up" and nothing negative will happen if some happens to slip in. Just apply the paste on the heatspreader as usual and all will be fine .

 

[kenwas]

No need to "fill it up" and nothing negative will happen if some happens to slip in. Just apply the paste on the heatspreader as usual and all will be fine .