THERMAL PASTE SAGES

I was watching an interesting video from the guys at Gamers Nexus with regard to thermal paste. Notably, what effect your application method has on temperature with a mainstream processor. And it confirmed a lot of what we thought to be true.

What were the results? Well, they discovered that the application method and amount of paste used made little to no difference on temp results (less than 1 C between five different methods, in a strict testing environment). We expected as much. In our labs, for our mainstream parts, we typically opt for a small pea-sized dot in the middle, then let the heatsink spread p it out over the die.

W What we’re getting at is this: How However you apply your thermal pas paste, as long as there’s a layer of it between the CPU and the hea heatsink, you’re good to go. The There are exceptions, especially if yo you’re using a larger multi-die or m monolithic HEDT chip, or an exc excessive amount of conductive the thermal paste (if that stuff falls out the sides, you could be looking at a sh short circuit), but otherwise, for mai mainstream method, the amount simply doesn’t matter. For the full breakdown and in-depth testing, I recommend you check out Gamers Nexus’s video at http://bit.ly/ GNThermalPaste.