This Is Why You Should Use More Thermal Paste for Your CPU!

The simplest and fastest explanation as to why using a tiny bit of thermal paste and expecting the CPU cooler to spread it evenly does not work anymore is because over time CPUs themselves have grown bigger in dimensions.

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Spreading a thermal paste: how and how much?

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