Personally, I wouldn't use thermal pastes for GPUs anymore, especially for high-wattage cards. This is because pastes tend to pump out in a few weeks to a few months. Phase change material like the PTM7950 is the best thermal solution for GPUs because they last for a very long time. I had to trial-and-error multiple times in the span of five months for me to conclude that thermal paste is only a temporary solution.
A good paste is better than PTM7950. Go and have a look a IgorsLABs database of thermal paste, there he shows which are good and which are bad for different use cases.
no point in doing a cross pattern wit the thermal paste if you are going to spread it all over the cpu 3 seconds later do a cross, with much less thermal paste then just install the heatsink
Dude take it easy on the thermal paste already.
too little is bad too much is irrelevant as the excess gets pushed out. source: google it, many tests
Personally, I wouldn't use thermal pastes for GPUs anymore, especially for high-wattage cards. This is because pastes tend to pump out in a few weeks to a few months.
Phase change material like the PTM7950 is the best thermal solution for GPUs because they last for a very long time. I had to trial-and-error multiple times in the span of five months for me to conclude that thermal paste is only a temporary solution.
A good paste is better than PTM7950.
Go and have a look a IgorsLABs database of thermal paste, there he shows which are good and which are bad for different use cases.
Let me know what you think!
I made the same mistake as well because its been a while I assemble a pc. So it felt like cleaning my pc was a noob experience 😂
But hey, not everyone is doing it, so we are still good! :)
no point in doing a cross pattern wit the thermal paste if you are going to spread it all over the cpu 3 seconds later
do a cross, with much less thermal paste then just install the heatsink
Yes, I think you are right. Could have saved some time.
He definitely does the same amount with his tooth paste x)
Noo, the X was smaller! :D
think someting ells need some cleen to beffore to
Yes, the whole place. :)