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I finally saw the difference a proper thermal paste application made on a gaming rig that kept overheating.
After redoing the paste on a client's PC with a pea-sized dot instead of the huge glob they'd used, the CPU temps dropped from 95C to 72C under load in just one afternoon, so what's your go-to method for applying it?
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dakotal193mo ago
Remember watching my cousin try to "frost the CPU like a cake" once. He used half the tube and temps were so bad his game looked like a slideshow. My method is just a thin line across the middle now, works every time without the mess. Honestly, most people just use way too much and it ends up acting like a blanket.
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karenhenderson3mo ago
Frosting the cake actually works better on some chips. Modern CPUs have heat spreaders with uneven surfaces. A thin line can leave gaps on the corners. The big glob method, if spread properly with a card, fills every tiny imperfection. More paste just squeezes out the sides, and cleaning it is worth the extra cooling.
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jessew8316d ago
Bruh your cousin must have been using mayonnaise instead of thermal paste if temps went that bad. I once watched a guy put a pea sized dot on his 5950X and it still ran hot because he didn't spread it at all. Thin line across the middle works for most chips but I swear Intel's new LGA1700 sockets are so warped you gotta go full spatula mode just to make contact.
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