Ok so I thought this would be the best place to get answers to this outstandingly tedious and never cycle of different instructions on applying thermal paste.
To all of you out there who have a 212 EVO, what do you recommend and don't recommend when applying thermal paste. E.G.
- Dot in the middle of CPU method?
- grain of Rice and spread with something like a credit card method (and if this technique then do you have to be careful about such things as putting too much on and bleeding over the edge when the heatsink is installed and what are the consequences of this.
- Cross Method?
- 2 (or) 3 lines (cannot remember) down along the heatsink copper ridges.
Also just a side note, do you recommend buying after market thermal compound such as something from Arctic Silver or will the stock CM suffice.
Anyone I'm hoping to get this sorted once and for all and know that if I follow proper instructions given to me taht I should be fine. I don't want to end up using some method that ends up with unusually high temps or a method that ends up with thermal compound bleeding onto the motherboard.
To all of you out there who have a 212 EVO, what do you recommend and don't recommend when applying thermal paste. E.G.
- Dot in the middle of CPU method?
- grain of Rice and spread with something like a credit card method (and if this technique then do you have to be careful about such things as putting too much on and bleeding over the edge when the heatsink is installed and what are the consequences of this.
- Cross Method?
- 2 (or) 3 lines (cannot remember) down along the heatsink copper ridges.
Also just a side note, do you recommend buying after market thermal compound such as something from Arctic Silver or will the stock CM suffice.
Anyone I'm hoping to get this sorted once and for all and know that if I follow proper instructions given to me taht I should be fine. I don't want to end up using some method that ends up with unusually high temps or a method that ends up with thermal compound bleeding onto the motherboard.