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Which is the proper way to apply thermal paste for a Quad core?

I use the dot method. I always remove after initial application and confirm that I'm getting a good spread, and I always have.
 
I gotta agree. The dot method seems to do the best job and to boot, no air bubbles. The shitty thing is, if your aim is off and the dot is not centered it won't spread evenly over the plate.
 
You must have some really unsteady hands, or a really high recoil thermal paste ;)
 
Ive personally done two methods and both have worked out well.

I have used the dot method as DanishDevil has pointed out and I have also put a descent size drop on top of the CPU and with using a latex glove spread it out evenly corner to corner making sure no silver part of the CPU was showing. Both those methods have yet to fail me.
 
DanishDevil said:
You must have some really unsteady hands, or a really high recoil thermal paste ;)
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HA! More like I'm extremely anal when it comes to this kind of stuff. Non-symmetrical things have always bugged me.... Probably the reason why I chose a car with dual exhaust :D
 
BB size amount, let the heatsink spread it for you. This is the method I've been using for about 14 years now.
 
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