Questions about Indigo Xtreme and CPU burn-in/reflow

[Cyber Akuma]

Planning to build an i7 Ivy-Bridge rig, and I want to go with an Indigo Xtreme for the cooling compound.

Never done one of these before, so I tried to look at some videos, and I am still confused.

Do you just leave all that plastic on other than the top cover you peel off after putting on the heat sink?

And the packet just has a square-U shaped bit of the liquid metal in one corner, how would I put the heatsink on evenly like that?

Do I have to worry about it leaking off the edges?

Is it really safe to run the cpu at full load on all cores with NO fans running? Won't not having the heatsink fan running risk damaging the CPU?

How long do I have to do the burn-in? How will I know when its done?

And finally, all the burn-in videos showed them using a Windows app. Since this will be a new build, I won't have an OS installed in order to do that, are there any live cds that can run all 8 cores of an i7 at full load for this? Especially if they can show load/temp statics while doing it?

[photolady]

Read the .pdf found in the link below: The second .pdf listed.

http://www.indigo-xtreme.com/documentation.html

It tells you what you have to do to install this product.

[Cyber Akuma]

Hmm.... only issue with that is that I have no way to install an os first.

[photolady]

Then maybe you should just use Arctic Silver 5 like most of us do.

I don't know what you read but from the little bit I did read, you put the indigo extreme between the heatsink and cpu just like you would AS5. Did you read the entire article?

I think they are assuming you already have an OS installed. Main reason I say that is, it says boot the computer and open a monitoring program. You couldn't do that if the OS wasn't already installed. After you install Indigo Extreme to the cpu, then you intall your OS. Another reason is because the instructions tell you to remove the old grease before installing the Indigo Extreme.

[photolady]

Read the whole article. At the bottom of the second page on the right hand side it states:

Do not remove the clear Top and Bottom liners
prior to the specific installation step. Do not
bend, flex or puncture any portion of the ETI.
Keep all solvents away from the ETI.

[jdc2000]

Many motherboards have temperature monitoring built into the BIOS that you might be able to use before an OS is installed.