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Proper application of thermal paste

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Hi. I know there are a lot of ways in applying thermal paste to CPUs... but I was curious on the majority on the most reliable and effective way applying thermal paste esp to a hexacore CPU.. e.g. 6850k. Kindly post your pics how youve done it. Some would do the "x" pattern.. some would just apply a dot at the center and thats it... btw, I dont intend to use water. I am using DH15s. 

 

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Really, they all work near enough as well as the other. Line, X, dot, they all get spread by the pressure of the cooler. 

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Spray and pray ?

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You make a smiley face with the thermal paste on your CPU like me.

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6 minutes ago, DocYoda said:

Hi. I know there are a lot of ways in applying thermal paste to CPUs... but I was curious on the majority on the most reliable and effective way applying thermal paste esp to a hexacore CPU.. e.g. 6850k. Kindly post your pics how youve done it. Some would do the "x" pattern.. some would just apply a dot at the center and thats it... btw, I dont intend to use water. I am using DH15s. 

 

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1 minute ago, RS2007GOD said:

Spray and pray ?

 

2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Really, they all work near enough as well as the other. Line, X, dot, they all get spread by the pressure of the cooler. 

 

2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Really, they all work near enough as well as the other. Line, X, dot, they all get spread by the pressure of the cooler. 

You all are forgetting the smiley face method.

Ｉｎｓｅｒｔ   Ｄａｎｋ   Ｓｉｇｎａｔｕｒｅ   Ｈｅｒｅ．

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Size/shape of a grain of rice in the middle, press the heatsink down fully without lifting a side (or ya get air pockets), and gently twist it back and forth 3 or 4 times to help spread it around before locking it into place. Then put the system under load for 2 hours so the grease goes more fluid and fully spreads.

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Any would do.

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Also check this

 

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