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How do you apply thermal paste?

Post Date: 2010-12-20
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    Posted: 20 Dec 2010 at 4:12pm
Just a thread to sort of discuss various ways to apply thermal paste on your CPU.

Personally, I apply two medium-thin lines lengthwise, a little bit apart from the center of the CPU. Usually gives me a decent spread without overflow.
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Noctua recommends a single line just like our video shows on our YouTube channel.
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Not a major point of contention as both line and dot method should be fine but here they say a dot about 4-5mm.  If Noctua updated their method I guess I'll try the line next time and see how it works out.

Oh and I just checked out your new vids.  Great job on the instructional videos!


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I personally use a dot on small CPU's, and a line on bigger ones like 1366, the amount is more important than the line/dot technique though IMHO.

Then there is the TIM itself, some are runny, some very thick, so that will also change on what would be the better technique.
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yep I'v  noticed that some TIM  are a bit runny and some are thicker. some of the thicker ones have a bit less open time. In the much colder winter season here my overall ambient temperature is a lot cooler in the home. So the open time seems to be a bit shorter.
I always like to see vids and get some tips personally I like to lightly 'tin' the mating area to see what I have then use the dot or rice grain lines on larger CPU's.
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