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3DGameMan applying thermal grease

He's wearing a thin latex glove or fingercot. You can tell because the finger has a sheen to it and the parts of his fingerprint ridges are dark because of sweat causing the glove to stick. Or maybe I'm imagining all this. Anyways, fingers are great to spread heatsink compound, the trick is to not have to wash your finger afterwards. 😉 Yeah yeah, I know about Arctic Silver directions with credit cards and such. Pooh pooh, fingering it works just fine.
 
Given that I can see the thermal paste going into the ridges of the guy's fingerprints, I don't think he's wearing gloves.

Also, doesn't this method (bare fingers notwithstanding) contradict Arctic Silver's application instructions for processors with an IHS? I thought you were only supposed to spread it out on exposed dies.
 
Originally posted by: Trippytiger
Given that I can see the thermal paste going into the ridges of the guy's fingerprints, I don't think he's wearing gloves.
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Criminals are often suprised that they left fingerprints behind when they used latex gloves.

I don't know about instructions since I haven't followed them since the socket A heyday, but these days I just use Arctic Alumina and put a smallish glob in the center of the IHS, and let the pressure of the heatsink spread it out for me. Oh, boo hoo, my temperatures are 1ºC higher than someone who uses Arctic Silver "properly."
 
The person in the photo isn't wearing any gloves, the picture is just a bit out of focus but you can clearly see the dermal ridges on his finger and the thermal compound adhering to them.
 
Originally posted by: avi85
He is showing that this specific type of thermal paste has a consistency which is hard to work with.

See here.
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I thought so too, but then check the second pic with the Geil stuff. It's also spread out lumpy and has small grains and swirl marks on the core. I think he uses the "bare finger method" .

Guess he likes to add his own finger grease to the thermal material, to give it that nice totally uneven consistency 😉 .
 
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