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Buying a new motherboard, going to have to apply thermal paste. Duno what the hell im doing. Please help.

http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/components/componentlist.asp?parttypeid=113&t=3

This is my selection of thermal paste from the online shop im buying from. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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MX4 will do it. Just a pea size dab on the CPU.

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MX4 is really good stuff.

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The MX4 is a good choice for your thermal paste.

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MX4, with a pea sized dot in the middle. The technique doesn't really matter, you just have to make sure you don't put too much on. You can either spread the paste yourself (not with your bare hands - preferably your index finger covered in some form of plastic) or let the heat sink do the spreading. I vote for the latter as I have found it to be the more consistent approach :)

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The Prolimatech will be the best performing thermal compound.

MX4 would also be good.

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