Best Thermal Paste Application Methods If there's one thing our recent 33-way TIM comparison article has taught us, it's how the advice handed-out for free in discussion forums can often times be completely wrong. After we wrote that popular article, many enthusiasts argued that our method of spreading a thin layer of TIM with a latex glove (or finger cover) was not the best way to distribute the interface material. Most answers collected from both the hardware websites and enthusiast community claimed that you should use a single drop "about the size of a pea". Well, we tried that advice, and it turns out that maybe the community isn't as keen as they thought. The example image below is of a few frozen peas beside a small BB size drop of OCZ Freeze TIM. The image beside it is of the same socket-478 cooler two hours later after we completed testing. http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...170&Item id=1 |
I get dissapointed again :( |
one day:) |
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I am now teased =0 |
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Rutar was referring to this one too: http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/f...ks-well-43471/ |
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some people want to do other things in their lives, beside test thermal paste for weeks on end;) in the end the difference is marginal, and doesn't matter much, if your system stability depends on what thermal paste is used and how it's applied, you have an issue ;) |
For TEC's the middle droplet doesn't work that well, it's hard to spread out to TIM over the whole TEC that way. Instead, take your finger and spread it out yourself, then mount the heatsink/WB. |
if you could increase pressure on the TEC more it will spread out better;) |
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