Tony92882

i do a lot of builds and get a lot of smaller tubes of the cheap stuff included. I dont mind using the arctic silver, never had a problem with it. not broke, no need to fix kinda way of how i look at it. but i know the cheaper stuff is prob close to or just as good. i was more wondering if anyone ever had noticed a better way to apply the paste then more what brand or type works best. lets face it.. if you put too little it wont matter what brand you are using.

I am currently using the air flow case, it just has the mesh in the front, thats it and you can actually buy the front itself and convert your standard one to the "air flow" model.

I watched the video luke did and all the testing showed the same unless there was too little, i've never had a problem with thermal paste (thankfully), i was just wondering what the community thought of it.

the second part was more of , would there be a heat problem across the cpu if, lets just say there wasn't enough compound on the cpu, can it cause a gap possibly that would show up on core temps across the socket.. if that makes more sense to you. trying to get an idea if i was to trouble shoot something that could be an indicator that i should get how much paste is applied to the cpu.

yea i agree with you there, thankfully you had it.. i do have a test bench system i put it in for now just to keep it somewhere, i mean its an open case test bench but its better then having it laying around..

HAR HAR.. yes.. thank you.. i'll wait till my next revamp on my rig to do some upgrading.

that seems to be the answer i expected... it was just a thought since i have the card sitting here.

So I just took out my GTX660ti and upgraded to an GTX 970, reasons being its the best card that goes with my water block and i really don't have a huge reason to run up to the 1070/80 right now. But my question is, would it be worth it to keep the 660ti in my pc with air cooling just to run physX on it and leave the 970 to do the rest. has anyone bench tested anything close to that. (honestly just being lazy and don't feel like opening up my case to test it)

Has anyone ever done the X method of applying thermal paste. has anyone bench tested cores that had missing paste on the chip heat sink

I just wanted to talk about or actually know what other people's experiences about using thermal compounds on cpu and gpu components, we all know you need to , does anyone use a certain brand and how much do you typically use when applying it. Does anyone use a certain method while applying? Also can we talk about the right amount that is needed to cover correctly and why applying too much is bad. I personally use arctic silver 5, i find using a dot in the middle before applying a cooling block seems to cover it well.