How do you apply Thermal paste?

[Knunez]

Hello everyone long time no see,

and today I wanted to ask how you apply thermal paste to your CPU.

What method gets you the best results?

thank you.

-Knunez

 

[StrangleHold]

In general, just put a amount of the size of a grain of rice in the middle. Then let the CPU cooler spread it out.

 

[MrSleepin]

i like to smear it around after i attach the cooler to it... i have watched a few videos where they did that in the tutorial... this spreads it out even better once you mate the 2

 

[2048Megabytes]

Use the technique Stranglehold suggested for applying thermal paste. I would also suggest making sure the heatsink and processor are clean before applying the thermal paste. Isopropyl alcohol is a very good cleaning agent to use.

 

[StrangleHold]

i like to smear it around after i attach the cooler to it... i have watched a few videos where they did that in the tutorial... this spreads it out even better once you mate the 2

The only time I would recommend doing that, is if you spread it out on the CPU before installing the cooler. It would help to get the air bubbles out.

 

[linkin]

It actually doesn't help with air bubbles because you can never get a perfectly flat or even layer of paste.

The CPU and cooler are the closest thing to perfectly flat so let them do the spreading. IMO.

 

[Knunez]

thanks for the help I'll be going with the method that strangehold suggested, it seems like the best choice.

 

[linkin]

Spreading the paste won't help with temps. Just saying.