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When applying thermal paste, you do not ―globǁ it on… You should apply a very small dot at
each corner and a couple in the center, use a guitar pick or similar to smooth out the paste so there are
no dips or pits.
The CPU will always use thermal paste because it does not get as hot as the GPU does. The GPU
will almost always use a thermal pad and not paste. Thermal pads will allow for the natural thermal
expansion of the chipset and will allow for the greatest heat dissipation. Do not replace the thermal
pad with a copper shim on a NVidia chipset… You must re-use the thermal pad on the video chip.