Thermal Paste In AM4 Socket

[venomx]

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

 

[venomx]

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.

Yeah I always get a bit carried away lol. Temps are good though ( 31c idle, 65c stress test )

 

[venomx]

It's a good job it wasn't Liquid Metal.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/foru...iquid-pro-thermal-compound-dead-cpu.18063812/

Yeah it's definitely non conductive.
Not 100% sure how it actually got under the CPU and into the socket. I think when I cleaned the paste off a bit got smudged along the sides of the CPU

I tend to use a generous amount otherwise it would bother me thinking I didn't put enough on

 

[venomx]

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...

 

[venomx]

Next time I'll try to put less on. Everything's running fine now so i'll leave it.

 

[venomx]

This is how much you need on it.

Out of curiousity how did you Photoshop that ?