How does someone get to know thermal paste is a requirement without accidentally seeing how it’s required?
This is like knowing petrol is needed for your new car, then just stopping at some point, referring to the note “Get petrol” and deciding pumping it into every orifice the car has is what that means. “I assume that’s what that meant. I’m in a rush. No time to Google how to pump this “petrol” thing into the car.”
I can’t remember the video but it was some dude from a major computer YouTube channel fillmed himself building a PC. He used a grounding strap that wasn’t grounded and did all this crazy crap. They ended up taking it down fairly quick but not before everyone made fun of it. I think even he used thermal paste though.
Reminds me of this:
Me when I have to use anti seize in the shop
The only thing too much thermal paste does is leave a mess, but you might need thermal pads on VRMs for better contact
Witness me!
At that point it’s just thermal paste with slight hints of computer.
“A dab’ll do ya.”
Not sure I see a problem here, this all looks intended. I’m not familiar with this device though. Since the heat sink plates are so big and the screws are so far apart I’m not sure they could get away with less without potentially missing contact with a sink. It seems more like bad mechanical engineering than bad application.
Thermal compound has a thermal resistance. It’s better than air, but not as good as metal. The best application is a layer that fills all the air gaps, and no more.
Adding to this… Airgaps is not emphasized enough here. There is a reason why you don’t do closed shapes when applying thermal paste, and why so many system builders have strong opinions on how to apply it.
Personally, I go for an X or a % where the os are actually dots.
Who is saying that is the major consideration here?
Its obvious the major problem here is ustable movement and flexing when those large sink plates are screwed down will not distribute the paste very well resulting in a higher risk of air gaps. So they left a lot of room for it to press out and it doesn’t look like they used a ton of that space.
The bigger the gob, the better the job!
Loads of goo? I can count on you!
I changed my GPU thermal paste 2 days ago. I guess I need to open it again and empty the rest of the tube.
Each of those chips have basically half a container on them, so I’m not sure how anyone got the idea they should use that much.
I paid for the whole container, and by god I’m going to use it!
