Hi Leo,
thanks for your reply.
It says
https://www.corsair.com/us/en/explor...-should-i-use/
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Thermal paste is simply a compound that can flow enough to be pressed into the gaps to fill them and as is as conductive as possible to facilitate enough heat transfer between the CPU and the cooler. This is one of the reasons that installing a cooler requires you to wrench it down worryingly tight. This pressure is necessary to squish the thermal paste into those gaps and force the air out.
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So I assume he's using a system where he can torque 4 screws down to
get an even and strong pressure across the entire CPU chip?
That is not the case with the 4 cheap plastic fan/heatsink holder clips that
I was forced to use.
I found that my CPU didn't pass the cooling test at 55% CPU and when I added
slightly more heatsink compound it did pass.
I also wasn't relying on a strong force to spread the heatsink compound evenly -
I spread it evenly myself with the spatula provide in the nano diamond kit.
cheers
Allan