Re-paste

[king_shifu]

Was seeing some high idle temps might have been due to zero fan at idle... Took it apart for a re-paste and put as much as I saw on it originally. Temps are pretty good now especially during gaming. Was this to much though (artic mx6).

[Skiiwee29]

it won't hurt it, but yes... excessive and a waste. 

[ArnoG]

Too much thermal paste doesn’t exist, it’s non-conductive so even if it spills over some transistors/capacitors/… you’ll be fine. Only a pain next time when you have to work on it, and remove a bunch of old paste.

 

You should see how much thermal paste they use in gaming laptops. Also a whole lot and in my case it covered a bunch of capacitors nearby.

[jaslion]

Plenty more than needed but that doesnt matter. 

 

Like gigabyte legit SMEARS their cards in paste to not use thermal pads. Basicallt like using 4 tubes of mx6 :p.

 

Its fine itll just be a bit messy but that doesnt matter.

 

You fixed your temps so thats a job done well id say. That and you properly made sure ALL of the die is covered which is very important for bare die chips without a heat spreader as the cooler mountinf pressure is much lower and wont always push the thermal paste to fill all the voids.

 

So tldr excessive yes, does it matter? No. A job well done none the less. 

[DNooby]

xD you're not frosting a cake, should be fine... just really messy.

 

I swear it looks like a heavy snowday

[Dedayog]

59 minutes ago, king_shifu said:

Was seeing some high idle temps might have been due to zero fan at idle... Took it apart for a re-paste and put as much as I saw on it originally. Temps are pretty good now especially during gaming. Was this to much though (artic mx6).

About as meme-ish as Linuns dropping things.

 

Suitable for Off Topic.

 

And no, you didn't see even 10% of that originally

 

[king_shifu]

thanks for the replies! ops6 set to ultra/ extreme settings and it doesn't hit 60deg c (@ 100% utilization )