Applying Thermal Paste

ZeroThreat

Have a macho hr-02 heatsink to install right now.
A little sachet (2g) came with the fan containing chill factor thermal paste. I'm just wondering what is the most effective method for applying it the cpu/heatsink surfaces, because some guides on you tube suggest spreading it out with something like a credit card first, whil other guides recommend applying a 'single grain' sized blob of past and just placing the heastink on top.

Any suggestions?

shuyin1

Pea drop in the centre does the job, Pressure will spread it evenly and no bubbles. The paste doesn't have to cover all of the CPU's heatsink to maximize heat dissipation. Good luck.

frozenfrozen

pea drop is definitely the best way. Not getting full spread is better than an air bubble!

ZeroThreat

so pea drop and just sit the heatsink onto the cpu surface, no need to spread it about first?

There was some youtube video where a guy was spreading it about with a cc

Btw I get 2g, will a pea size drop use about half of that?

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ZeroThreat wrote: »

Btw I get 2g, will a pea size drop use about half of that?

A pea-size drop will use a pea-sized amount. If your 2 grams looks to be about the size of two peas then it will use about half of that.

frozenfrozen

get a pea, cut it in half and scoop out the inner-greeny-goodness, then fill it with thermal paste, then remove the outer pea skin, then apply cpu cooler

uncle_sam_ie

How not to do it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU2_uP9S9Gg

thewheel2.0

frozenfrozen wrote: »

pea drop is definitely the best way. Not getting full spread is better than an air bubble!

Oh ****. I thought that it had to be spread out over the whole thing and that the spread method would be better at achieving 100% coverage!

frozenfrozen

thewheel2.0 wrote: »

Oh ****. I thought that it had to be spread out over the whole thing and that the spread method would be better at achieving 100% coverage!

It's not worth re-applying, but yeah, air bubbles = bad for dissipating heat

BhoyRayzor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyXLu1Ms-q4&feature=fvwrel

shows the two and how air bubbles happen with the spread method

thewheel2.0

BhoyRayzor wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyXLu1Ms-q4&feature=fvwrel

shows the two and how air bubbles happen with the spread method

Damn I watched that video before my build without annotations so I thought the point was to spread it out to achieve 100%!

Monotype

Pea sized? I think some of you might be over-doing the thermal paste unless you're eating quite small peas. Arctic Silver used to recommended a grain and a half of rice, iirc.

frozenfrozen

Monotype wrote: »

Pea sized? I think some of you might be over-doing the thermal paste unless you're eating quite small peas. Arctic Silver used to recommended a grain and a half of rice, iirc.

What kind of huge peas are you eating?!

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Monotype wrote: »

Pea sized? I think some of you might be over-doing the thermal paste unless you're eating quite small peas. Arctic Silver used to recommended a grain and a half of rice, iirc.

Maybe they're big grains of rice. . . O.o