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<blockquote data-quote="Lasherž" data-source="post: 8729602" data-attributes="member: 679555"><p>That application doesn&#039;t look too bad to me. With chillers the main concern is the downforce. If you&#039;ve got a bracket on the back you can get enough pressure without damaging anything that most well known pastes will spread out evenly out of pressure alone. The best example of when that&#039;s not a good method is something like the intel included coolers. AMDs as far as I know clamp pretty good. Another example of poor clamping leading to poor thermal grease spread is the PS4. A friend of mine had one that was running loud. I took it apart and applied some quality grease and the problem got worse. The issue was the crappy bent metal tensioner isn&#039;t strong enough to thin the paste so I had to do it myself with a gift card. Ordinarily you don&#039;t need to go that far, but so long as there&#039;s no spots missed between the center and the outer edge of the spread you&#039;re not hurting anything by spreading it yourself.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Lasherž, post: 8729602, member: 679555"] That application doesn't look too bad to me. With chillers the main concern is the downforce. If you've got a bracket on the back you can get enough pressure without damaging anything that most well known pastes will spread out evenly out of pressure alone. The best example of when that's not a good method is something like the intel included coolers. AMDs as far as I know clamp pretty good. Another example of poor clamping leading to poor thermal grease spread is the PS4. A friend of mine had one that was running loud. I took it apart and applied some quality grease and the problem got worse. The issue was the crappy bent metal tensioner isn't strong enough to thin the paste so I had to do it myself with a gift card. Ordinarily you don't need to go that far, but so long as there's no spots missed between the center and the outer edge of the spread you're not hurting anything by spreading it yourself. [/QUOTE]

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