What thermal paste method do you use on your home PC?

[hhhd1]

combination between rice grain dot and Spread,

a very small dot in the middle, and then help it to spread it while keeping most of it in the middle.

maybe we can call this method the mountain method.

 

[ehume]

The stuff slumps. Best to make a heap, measure the diameter in mm. Run several test. Find your best mount, then stick with it. Skinnee Labs found there was a several degree difference between a good mount and a poor one.

 

[stockwiz]

poop.

Sorry I meant dot.

 

[ehume]

poop.

Sorry I meant dot.

I wonder if anyone has tried bird poop as a TIM?

 

[frogspawn]

I get best results with pea size, pastes are liquid and excess just squishes out but with some confidence that the gaps are filled which is the point after all with thermal compound

I prefer MX4, you get 5X the applications vs Arctic silver 5 -tube is sized for ants lol, probably why they recommend rice sized application so people don't think they are getting such a raw deal.

 

[nemesismk2]

i just use one blob of cpu paste onto the cpu and then put the cpu cooler onto cpu. i have had no heat issues with my amd cpu,

 

[VirtualLarry]

I get best results with pea size, pastes are liquid and excess just squishes out but with some confidence that the gaps are filled which is the point after all with thermal compound.

IMHO, if it's squishing out the side, then you've used too much.

 

[swampi800]

I agree , drop , attach and let mother natuire get to work.

 

[swampi800]

Depends on how big the pea.
I would go for a garden pea to exact perfection.