For something as basic as thermal paste, people sure believe in a lot of myths about it. I mean, the role and impact of the TIM (thermal interface material) on your PC's performance isn't remotely as ...

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Some PC debates will likely never end, such as Mac versus PC, which browser is the best, and which pattern to use when applying thermal paste to a CPU heat spreader. Though the "dot in the center" ...

Noctua recommends a single dot at the middle, spanning 3 to 4 mm for proper coverage of the entire IHS. AMD's AM5 CPU requires a dot-sized paste application only. This is a drastic change from the ...

We all know that applying thermal paste to CPUs isn't the easiest thing to do, squirt a little on... move it around, make it kinda even... but now there's an idiot-proof method of applying the perfect ...

AMD's Ryzen 7000 series processors based on its Zen 4 architecture have a very unusual design to their integrated heatspreaders (IHS). If you're not careful, the notches on the sides of the IHS can ...

Graphics Cards MSI's monstrous 1000 W watercooled RTX 5090 has been designed to 'completely ignore the concepts of balance in favour of extremes', apparently Graphics Cards Best graphics cards in 2025 ...

First time I have ever used an aftermarket CPU cooler. CPU is a Phenom II x3. Do I apply the paste to the CPU or to the cooler? Or does it matter? Cooler is some sort of Scythe Katana 3 thing that I'm ...