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When you get a new motherboard, do you normally refit the heatsinks with decent paste. Or is the stuff used in production considered perfectly good enough these days.
Also, it is common that the VRM heatsink uses relatively thick thermal pads rather than paste. I can understand that because it might be easier to guarantee contact between the line of VRM chips and the heatsink using a thermal pad.
But is there any value in redoing this with paste. My hestitation is whether there would be sufficient clamping force to maintain the contact especially as the pad is a lot thicker than paste.
Cheers,
Nigel
Also, it is common that the VRM heatsink uses relatively thick thermal pads rather than paste. I can understand that because it might be easier to guarantee contact between the line of VRM chips and the heatsink using a thermal pad.
But is there any value in redoing this with paste. My hestitation is whether there would be sufficient clamping force to maintain the contact especially as the pad is a lot thicker than paste.
Cheers,
Nigel
