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Thermal Paste In AM4 Socket

venomx

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I tend to put a fair bit of thermal paste in for good measure and have had excellent results with it.

Only thing is, when I came to fit my new AIO a bit of thermal paste was stuck underneath the CPU in the socket of the motherboard ( the tiny little pin holes )
I used some wipes designed for cleaning CPUs and a tiny bit still remained. However my CPU and temps are fine.

Is that a problem or not ? It's non conductive paste
 
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venomx said:
I tend to put a fair bit of thermal paste in for good measure and have had excellent results with it.

Only thing is, when I came to fit my new AIO a bit of thermal paste was stuck underneath the CPU in the socket of the motherboard ( the tiny little pin holes )
I used some wipes designed for cleaning CPUs and a tiny bit still remained. However my CPU and temps are fine.

Is that a problem or not ? It's non conductive paste
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If it works it works, and you’re more likely to cause problems by trying to fix it than you are to clean it fully. It’s always possible that over time it will spread more, but after 6+ months most pastes will start to dry out to a powder anyway.

One question though: plenty of thermal paste?

Less is more man, you only need enough to form a very thin film between the heat spreader and cooler pad.
 
philo-sofa said:
If it works it works, and you’re more likely to cause problems by trying to fix it than you are to clean it fully. It’s always possible that over time it will spread more, but after 6+ months most pastes will start to dry out to a powder anyway.

One question though: plenty of thermal paste?

Less is more man, you only need enough to form a very thin film between the heat spreader and cooler pad.
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Yeah I always get a bit carried away lol. Temps are good though ( 31c idle, 65c stress test )
 
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Looking at the description of the paste I used ( and have always used ) says " Contact with any pins will not cause any damage as it contains no metal particles "

In future I'll try and be a bit more conservative with my paste

You will probably laugh but this is how much paste I just used after remounting my AIO for cable management...
Size of a pea... a big pea... :D
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Bouton Aide said:
It's a good job it wasn't Liquid Metal.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/foru...iquid-pro-thermal-compound-dead-cpu.18063812/
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I has four diplomas in hardware, network and technical support y’know. But I like to bathe my CPU socket in something with the qualities of liquid Mercury.

It’s a classic thread :)


venomx said:
Looking at the description of the paste I used ( and have always used ) says " Contact with any pins will not cause any damage as it contains no metal particles "

In future I'll try and be a bit more conservative with my paste

You will probably laugh but this is how much paste I just used after remounting my AIO for cable management...
Size of a pea... a big pea... :D
20210228-121646.jpg
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I mean... yeah you could do with like 10% of that and your thermals would only improve. But hey, it all works.
 
venomx said:
I tend to use a generous amount otherwise it would bother me thinking I didn't put enough on
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The point of the paste is to fill microscopic gaps between the two metal surfaces. It's not jam in a sandwich.

If the cpu and the heatsink were two bits of paper that size imagine the amount of pvc glue you'd need to stick them together.

That's how much thermal paste you'd need.
 
venomx said:
Next time I'll try to put less on. Everything's running fine now so i'll leave it.
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To be frank most of us have done stuff like this. I once got a bit of thermal paste on the edge of a Socket (775 iirc). I then wiped it with a tissue, which of course got tissue into the socket. I then used tweezers to remove the tissue and pulled out a pin along with the tissue (socket 774 FTW!!).

As I was a penniless student at the time decided to *ahem* just RMA it to Gigabyte, who said 'no error found' but returned a completely new board.
 
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