OCZ / OCZ Ultra 5+ Instructions OCZ Ultra 5+ Instructions

OCZ Ultra 5+ is o­ne of the most sophisticated thermal compounds o­n the market. The manner in which it is applied is important and differs depending o­n the kind of processor you are using. Before starting please ensure the following safety instructions are followed:


- Never put OCZ Ultra 5 anywhere near your mouth

- Avoid contact with eyes. If contact should occur wash thoroughly with water and seek medical attention if irritation should follow

- Never turn o­n your PC without a cooler installed, even for a second

- Never install a cooler without thermal paste


Installation using an AMD Athlon XP, Thunderbird or Pentium III style processor:

Clean the CPU core and cooler with isopropyl alcohol or acetone using a cloth that leaves no material residue. If a thermal pad was used previously make sure it has been completely removed prior to using OCZ Ultra 5.

Clean the underside of the cooler, again with isopropyl alcohol or acetone, until you can see no remnants of the previous paste or thermal pad used.

Place a small amount of thermal paste o­n the surface of the cooler where it will make contact with the core and rub it into the heatsink material. Remove it from the cooler with a cloth that leaves no material residue. This will fill the microscopic valleys in the cooler and optimize thermal contact.

Place a small amount of thermal compound o­n the die (core) of your processor and spread it until it is completely flat and even using a straight edge such as a credit card or the straight edge of the blunt side of a knife. OCZ does not recommend using a razor blade as this can damage the delicate core of AMD cpus. The layer of thermal compound applied to the core of the CPU should be as thin as possible whilst still remaining completely opaque. Thermal paste is designed purely as an assistant to optimise surface area contact, so the thicker the paste is, the less effective the contact will be. An exception is when using a very roughly based cooler which might require more paste.

Carefully install the cooler to minimize the amount the cooler slides around o­n the core. If you smear too much paste off the chip, remove it and re-apply thermal paste to retain a smooth finish.


Installation using an Intel Pentium 4, Athlon 64 or Opteron style processor.

Due to the presence of a heat spreader sitting between the core and the cooler o­n this kind of processor, a different method of installation is needed. Place a small amount of paste about the size of an uncooked grain of long-grain rice in the centre of the Heatspreader and install the chip in your mainboard.

Lower the CPU cooler down directly o­nto the CPU to minimize smearing. Although it will appear that o­nly a fraction of the heats spreader has had paste installed, the cooler will squeeze the paste out to the appropriate width over time. This method minimized the chances of air bubbles and inconsistent thickness. Spreading compound over the entire heat spreader will simply result in a less even, thicker spread resulting in higher temperatures overall.

Notes:

Please note that regardless of the processor used, OCZ Ultra 5+ will take approximately 150-200 hours before its optimal conduction is realized. It is perfectly normal to see a reduction of 1-5 degrees Celsius over this time period depending o­n how well the paste was installed.