The only thing too much thermal paste does is leave a mess, but you might need thermal pads on VRMs for better contact
Is it odd that this is not even close to “bad” I have seen? Hell I have seen things shipped from production with this level of glorp.
Reminds me of this:
Back in the very early 2000s a friend on mine that I thought was pretty technical heard me talking about thermal paste and he had never used any. After telling him about the benefits he was excited to get some and use it on his new PC he was building. He came in the next day sad, said it had fried and he thinks it was the paste. I asked how much he put on and his response was “umm, like icing on a cake”. in my head it was even worse the the posted image.
Oof, it’s nice that most thermal paste these days is non-conductive
How does someone get to know thermal paste is a requirement without accidentally seeing how it’s required?
This is like knowing petrol is needed for your new car, then just stopping at some point, referring to the note “Get petrol” and deciding pumping it into every orifice the car has is what that means. “I assume that’s what that meant. I’m in a rush. No time to Google how to pump this “petrol” thing into the car.”
I can’t remember the video but it was some dude from a major computer YouTube channel fillmed himself building a PC. He used a grounding strap that wasn’t grounded and did all this crazy crap. They ended up taking it down fairly quick but not before everyone made fun of it. I think even he used thermal paste though.
It was the verge lol
The bigger the gob, the better the job!
Loads of goo? I can count on you!
Oops all thermal paste!
Me when I have to use anti seize in the shop
At that point it’s just thermal paste with slight hints of computer.
Oh no, oh no no no no no.
Not sure I see a problem here, this all looks intended. I’m not familiar with this device though. Since the heat sink plates are so big and the screws are so far apart I’m not sure they could get away with less without potentially missing contact with a sink. It seems more like bad mechanical engineering than bad application.
“A dab’ll do ya.”
Each of those chips have basically half a container on them, so I’m not sure how anyone got the idea they should use that much.
I paid for the whole container, and by god I’m going to use it!
The industrial containers I had the pleasure of producing and shipping could all be re-sealed for later (industrial) use. Are the options available for commercial use not able to be re-sealed for later use? As long as it’s properly sealed it can be good for 2-5 years.
