Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut- What Am I doing wrong?

[Finners]

Brought a couple of tubes of this about 8 months ago now and went to use it for the second time tonight and I just cant spread the stuff.

Its so thick! I was trying to apply it to a GPU core so wanted to spread it out thin. I heated it up in some water first, as I read after the last time I struggled people do this but it barely even comes out the tube.

I have to press so hard the plastic plunger bends and its literally shaking in my fingers.

Did I get a dodgy batch or is it supposes to be this thick? Doesn't seem to have changed consistency in the 8 months I've had it.

 

[Kelt]

Maybe try a hairdryer on it?

 

[Jumper118]

Needs a bit of heat on it. Strange though because I use kryonaut and it wasn't as bad as you described and that is thicker.

 

[8 Pack]

Heat with hairdryer. Also heat IHS before placing on and spreading will spread like butter then...

 

[Finners]

Heat with hairdryer. Also heat IHS before placing on and spreading will spread like butter then...

Thanks,

What about when applying directly to the die on a GPU, still safe to warm it up?

Saw a video on YouTube from the guy who made that delidder tool can't remember his name and he put it on really thick.

Does TG just need to go on thicker than other pastes? On GPU dies In the past I have put it on as thin as possible

 

[Jumper118]

Thanks,

What about when applying directly to the die on a GPU, still safe to warm it up?

Saw a video on YouTube from the guy who made that delidder tool can't remember his name and he put it on really thick.

Does TG just need to go on thicker than other pastes? On GPU dies In the past I have put it on as thin as possible

you only want to put in on really thick when doing ln2 benching on skylake to prevent the paste cracking at very low temps. for normal use you want to spread as thin as you can really.