First post, by athlon-power
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I know most ceramic Pentiums didn't use thermal paste at the time- but I'm starting to work on a Pentium MMX 200MHz, and I'd rather play it safe than sorry. The problem I'm having at the moment is a question of how to apply the thermal paste to the CPU. A pea-size dot in the center, more, less?
The surface area of these CPUs is absolutely monstrous, and add the fact that the Socket 7 heatsinks usually don't put as much pressure down as later heatsinks did, it makes it seem like a pea-sized dot is maybe too little, but I also don't want to put too much on there. This might be dead obvious, but I've only messed with exposed die and IHS based CPUs, not ceramic ones like this. I tried looking it up, but everybody's asking if you should put thermal paste on these CPUs, not how.
Where am I?