Too Much Thermal Paste

Too Much Thermal Paste. It spilled to the sides, so I tried to wipe it off and also removed the cpu from. It could be just too much gunk in the holes, so the pins I think the problem might be is my mistake of applying too much thermal paste on the cpu.

did i apply thermal paste wrong? - Page 2 (Beatrice Benson)

The point of thermal paste is to provide a medium to increase the thermal conductivity between your CPU and the base of the heatsink. Thermal paste application is much debated among Clip-Share commenters, and we think a lot of that is because it's something everyone has experience with. The reason why too much thermal paste is the problem is that once compressed, the adhesive can also go to the other components and minor gaps between the chips, which could be a significant danger in the future.

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Too Much Thermal Paste Is Bad. It could be just too much gunk in the holes, so the pins I think the problem might be is my mistake of applying too much thermal paste on the cpu. When you apply too much thermal paste, you run the risk of the paste shorting out pins, bridges and other connections on your CPU and motherboard.