tim when is too much?

[fowler002]

well after all the issues I had with bent pin on the motherboard I have had the motherboard exchanged(through asrock as mentioned ocuk wanted nothing of it) I came to fit the ocuk h2flo cooler and had to use new tim as the pre-applied one was used previously hand had been cleaned off, I have read rice grain to pea size tho I think I may have put a little too much(tried using a spreader plastic I got with some akasa tim years ago to try and remove a some).

here's the pic

prob should have removed a bit more, hope it doesn't get into the socket though the gap you can see in the pic.
oh and I used the 'let the cooler spread the tim' technique rather than the 'spread using card/plastic bag' technique.

 

[fowler002]

Thats about double the amount I use to be honest.

I usually use less then that, it was a new lot of tim(mx-4, had used mx-2 for many years but what I had of it was drying up sp got new paste) so pressed it a little more than I was intending to.

Looks ok to me, maybe a little too much but nothing drastic. Letting the cooler spread the paste is a good idea as it reduces the chance of air bubbles. Realistically unless you are going to live on the bleeding edge of overclocking a tiny bit too much paste isn't going to make a difference.

I'm a bit more concerned about the paste going into the cpu socket, they say you don't want tim in there.

 

[fowler002]

thanks for the replies, it did look a little too much to me. as I said I pressed it a little more than I was wanting to, I was used to the mx-2 which gave a little more resistance than the mx-4 more came out with less pressure applied(well that's my excuse ).

going to get the pc set up and working before going back to clean off and re-apply the tim if the temps look high.

oh and no one replied about the risk of it going into the socket via the little gap you can see in the pic, or am I needless worrying and it's not that much paste that'll spill over the edge into the gap?

edit: ran ibt(maximum stress, all threads) for several mins, temps were reaching 50oC @stock(not oced). is this high?

 

[fowler002]

well I tried the 4.6ghz profile in the bios and got 77oC max on 2 of the cores and 71-73oC max on the other 2 cores(after 4hrs or so of ibt, 20 runs on max) with vcore 1.35-1.36v, tried playing around with offset to try and bring the vcore down to reduce temps but exception error, bsods and restarts before window loads. is 1.36v high for 4.6ghz?

also tried 4.8ghz but vcore was 1.432-1.448v(started at 1.448 then dropped to 1.432 after a bit) only ran ibt for a few mins and it hit 82oC on 2 cores low/mid 70oCs on the other 2 core), playing with the offset to try reducing the vcore also lead to the bsods etc.

I have 2 fans(push/pull) on the radiator of the ocuk h2flo(think corsair h60 as its the same minus the corsair logo and fan) but its the fans from the coolermaster cosmos s, I could try changing for the yateloons(d12sh looking on the fan) I have fast but also loud.