Enough Thermal Paste?

[ItzUknown]

Kust wanted to know if this is enough thermal paste or do I need more? My cpu is a ryzen 2600 stock speeds and I used Arctic Mx 4 

[Semper]

Looks to be sufficient to me. Remount your cooler and check your thermals. See if they're within expected range at both idle and under load.

Consider this:
The objective of thermal paste is to be as thin a layer as possible (while still being sufficient) between the IHS and your cooling solution's heat transfer surface. It's objective is to fill the microscopic gaps and uneven areas between the two surfaces.

[ItzUknown]

4 minutes ago, Semper said:

Looks to be sufficient to me. Remount your cooler and check your thermals. See if they're within expected range at both idle and under load.

Consider this:
The objective of thermal paste is to be as thin a layer as possible (while still being sufficient) between the IHS and your cooling solution's heat transfer surface. It's objective is to fill the microscopic gaps and uneven areas between the two surfaces.

Look I am in the process of changing my Cpu cooler right now so I will tell you in about 30 minutes i think

[glenalz81]

If you're asking if you can put a cooler on the chip in the picture i would say no. Is that the paste left over from the cooler you removed?

[ItzUknown]

10 minutes ago, Semper said:

Looks to be sufficient to me. Remount your cooler and check your thermals. See if they're within expected range at both idle and under load.

Consider this:
The objective of thermal paste is to be as thin a layer as possible (while still being sufficient) between the IHS and your cooling solution's heat transfer surface. It's objective is to fill the microscopic gaps and uneven areas between the two surfaces.

Is this enough? 

[glenalz81]

1 minute ago, ItzUknown said:

Is this enough?

Looks good 

[Sakkura]

Looks like a bit too much IMO, though it's hard to judge from a single picture. Also notice in your first pic, a little bit of paste has overflown the IHS, so that was probably also slightly too much paste.

[Beerzerker]

That looks about right to me, it does depend on the exact TIM you're using since some tend to spread out more than others do.

From the pics I've see so far it all looks good.

[ItzUknown]

22 minutes ago, Beerzerker said:

That looks about right to me, it does depend on the exact TIM you're using since some tend to spread out more than others do.

From the pics I've see so far it all looks good.

Well I was using mx4 arctic the temps are fantastic 27 on idle so I am really happy about that 

[Semper]

46 minutes ago, ItzUknown said:

Well I was using mx4 arctic the temps are fantastic 27 on idle so I am really happy about that 

Idle temps don't tell you everything that you need to know.  If you have good idle temps, but you reach thermal throttle under load, you have a bad mount.
Temperatures also need to be considered relative to ambient. ΔT over ambient at idle and load will tell you what you need to know. If you're idling at 30° but ambient is -30°, you've got an issue.

Most pastes also have a very short "curing" time, where they become most effective after they've had a chance to warm up, reflow into the nooks and crannies, and then left to cool down for a period of time (overnight, for an easy example). It's generally not a significant change, but it's not uncommon to see slight drops of low single digit averages. testing idle and load temperatures helps achieve this.

[Mister Woof]

Generally speaking, it only becomes "too much" when it starts to spill over too much when you tighten down the cooler.

 

The clamping force will force out any unnecessary paste so it won't be "too much" in the respect of interface, but can become "too much" if it spills over the sides onto other components.

 

Bottom line, rarely too much, often not enough, and a little too much is better than not enough.

[ItzUknown]

On 2/15/2020 at 3:14 PM, Semper said:

Idle temps don't tell you everything that you need to know.  If you have good idle temps, but you reach thermal throttle under load, you have a bad mount.
Temperatures also need to be considered relative to ambient. ΔT over ambient at idle and load will tell you what you need to know. If you're idling at 30° but ambient is -30°, you've got an issue.

Most pastes also have a very short "curing" time, where they become most effective after they've had a chance to warm up, reflow into the nooks and crannies, and then left to cool down for a period of time (overnight, for an easy example). It's generally not a significant change, but it's not uncommon to see slight drops of low single digit averages. testing idle and load temperatures helps achieve this.

Well my ambient is 10 - 20 Celsius and the idle is 34 when laying game all boost clock goes up to 3.9 ghz and it stays under or at 60 Celsius so I call that a success over my old temps (idle 45 - 48 and load 72) Also I wanted to ask : Is there a problem with my cpu being at 60 - 80 % EDC while not doing anything??? The reason I am asking this,is because I changed the Minimum Proccesing smething to 5 % and it hasnt changed anything

[ItzUknown]

On 2/15/2020 at 5:35 PM, Mister Woof said:

Generally speaking, it only becomes "too much" when it starts to spill over too much when you tighten down the cooler.

 

The clamping force will force out any unnecessary paste so it won't be "too much" in the respect of interface, but can become "too much" if it spills over the sides onto other components.

 

Bottom line, rarely too much, often not enough, and a little too much is better than not enough.

Ok then thanks for the tip !!