Tons of these articles out there, but this one has a lot of nice close up pics for the first time builder.....



http://techreport.com/articles.x/13671

Thank you MBF, a very good article. The instructions, and especially the pictures are excellent for those putting a set together.

Nice article.

Very nice article, MBF. Thank God someone was smart enough to have a woman with what appears to be a good sized hand to do the installation. The white fingernails also helps. Thankfully, they DIDN'T use some fool with hairy hands the size of baseball mitts totally obscuring what you are supposed to be seeing. Well done.

Thanks...I have sent this link to a few people.

Something like this takes the "I wonder" out of the computer hardware side of things.

Ya it always looks so easy when someone else is doin it.

Kiddin aside....excellent info.

Rule number one...Dont forget your static wrist strap!!!

That's a great tutorial. Better that the ones I learned by. (mostly trial and error)
The one that my dad showed me was from the early 90s (this was in 2007), and showed the guy working on a pII, so I didn't even know about the thermal gel.

Arctic Silver paste V or some ridiculously high number for a paste. LOL. Funny. Only Egyptian Kings and M$/Apple OS s.w. versions have higher number designations.