This was pretty interesting:
I was the same as him. In other words, decade+ of everyone else around me saying too much is bad. I guess that's coming from boxed cooler mounts in the 90s - early 00s, where I assume the heatsink wouldn't mount correctly if there was too much thermal compound, and the thermal compound itself turned into an insulator, instead of escaping the space between the heatsink and the cpu core. (I still remember the mounts of the boxed Socket A heatsink, which actually felt unreliable even when installed correctly.)
I was the same as him. In other words, decade+ of everyone else around me saying too much is bad. I guess that's coming from boxed cooler mounts in the 90s - early 00s, where I assume the heatsink wouldn't mount correctly if there was too much thermal compound, and the thermal compound itself turned into an insulator, instead of escaping the space between the heatsink and the cpu core. (I still remember the mounts of the boxed Socket A heatsink, which actually felt unreliable even when installed correctly.)
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