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Thermal paste on CPU

Question on the thermal paste. I am a first time PC builder and I see many videos on Youtube concerning the thermal paste. Some says you need to spread the paste on the CPU before mounting the heasink. Others say that you just need to drop like a grain of rice shape in the middle of the CPU and mount the heatsink on top. Who is right? Who is wrong? Who can I trust?

I am building a PC with an i7 Intel CPU 1155 3300K.

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alienvoice

Oh this will be fun. ;)

I tend to add about 1 ml of thermal paste on on the cpu and leave heat sink as is. I've have no issues.

Await for the other opinions! hehe

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biggynet

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I bought Arctic Silver 5 as well and I am glad that I ask this question because I don't know who to trust for the paste. But now I have documentation that I can rely on. Thanks

terencino

I better get me some of that Arctic Silver. I cleaned the thermal paste off my CPUs when I switched them over, thinking I would reapply it but I didn't have any thermal paste around so just put it back in anyway. That was about a year ago....

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