Thermal Spread? (PICTURES)

[Shadowman]

I put a pea size in the middle of my cpu which is a i9 7900x, after I took off the cpu water block this is how it looked (pictures below) As you can see there seems to be hardly any thermal  paste in the middle of the cpu and the water block?

I done this 2 times and same each time > middle hardly any thermal paste.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Skiiwee29]

That is fine. You have a good spread there. No harm will be done. The mounting pressure combined with the heat will help spread it further and you will be just fine. 

[Shadowman]

1 minute ago, legacy99 said:

That is fine. You have a good spread there. No harm will be done. The mounting pressure combined with the heat will help spread it further and you will be just fine. 

 

Thanks for that feel a bit better now  after seeing that middle with hardly any thermal paste and lots of around it got a bit worried. 

[InertiaSelling]

@legacy99 has already answered, but just in case you didn't know: thermal paste is supposed to fill in the gaps between the CPU and the block, and you seem to have a convex block (or concave IHS ?). As long as the temps are fine, everything is fine here.