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Back in the very early 2000s a friend on mine that I thought was pretty technical heard me talking about thermal paste and he had never used any. After telling him about the benefits he was excited to get some and use it on his new PC he was building. He came in the next day sad, said it had fried and he thinks it was the paste. I asked how much he put on and his response was "umm, like icing on a cake". in my head it was even worse the the posted image.
Oof, it’s nice that most thermal paste these days is non-conductive
How does someone get to know thermal paste is a requirement without accidentally seeing how it's required?
This is like knowing petrol is needed for your new car, then just stopping at some point, referring to the note "Get petrol" and deciding pumping it into every orifice the car has is what that means. "I assume that's what that meant. I'm in a rush. No time to Google further."
Engine oil? Well, petrol comes from oil! Better fill it up! Air goes in the intake, and we need fuel and air to mix. Throw some in there!
I can't remember the video but it was some dude from a major computer YouTube channel fillmed himself building a PC. He used a grounding strap that wasn't grounded and did all this crazy crap. They ended up taking it down fairly quick but not before everyone made fun of it. I think even he used thermal paste though.
It was the verge lol
I saw another video where the famous YouTuber censored out the thermal paste pattern sort of as a joke but sort of genuinely heading off comments disagreeing with how he put it on.
Reminds me of this:
Oops all thermal paste!
Me when I have to use anti seize in the shop
At that point it’s just thermal paste with slight hints of computer.
Is it odd that this is not even close to "bad" I have seen? Hell I have seem things shipped from production with this level of glorp.
Witness me!
“A dab’ll do ya.”
Not sure I see a problem here, this all looks intended. I'm not familiar with this device though. Since the heat sink plates are so big and the screws are so far apart I'm not sure they could get away with less without potentially missing contact with a sink. It seems more like bad mechanical engineering than bad application.
Thermal compound has a thermal resistance. It's better than air, but not as good as metal. The best application is a layer that fills all the air gaps, and no more.
Adding to this... Airgaps is not emphasized enough here. There is a reason why you don't do closed shapes when applying thermal paste, and why so many system builders have strong opinions on how to apply it.
Personally, I go for an X or a % where the os are actually dots.
I still do the just under pea sized amount right in the middle, have always gotten a good spread with it.
Who is saying that is the major consideration here?
Its obvious the major problem here is ustable movement and flexing when those large sink plates are screwed down will not distribute the paste very well resulting in a higher risk of air gaps. So they left a lot of room for it to press out and it doesn't look like they used a ton of that space.
The only thing too much thermal paste does is leave a mess, but you might need thermal pads on VRMs for better contact
Too much thermal grease is a barrier to heat, because it should only replace the air (a potent thermal insulator) between uneven surfaces. Oil would be better, but that runs away.
Which is also why you shouldn't smear the grease, because then you get air pockets. Rice corn or spaghetti method displaces the air on putting the cooler on. Also, the heat point is usually more in the center, the grease doesn't neccessarily need to cover the whole surface (it does creep a bit though).
Rice corn or spaghetti method displaces the air on putting the cooler on.
I'm not familiar with those methods and "rice corn or spaghetti" makes me think you boil the the paste first
Don't do this
Yeah: Use a paintbrush to cover the whole motherboard instead.