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Originally Posted by Bartacus
I'm with Avet, spreading FTW. I've always found spreading to be the most consistent way to apply paste, but YMMV. It's why I still prefer MX-4 too, since that stuff spreads very nicely.
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Some pastes have to be spread. They are too thick to spread properly when you screw down the cooler. Case in point, Arctic Ceramique which I used for many years.
It depends on the paste and the viscosity.
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Originally Posted by Warchild
Thats not much different to what we are paying for GPU and CPUs for 10% or less upgrades. That is for both AMD and Intel, yet we still do it because... benchmarks 
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Thing is if you are changing anything at all ever it just costs more and more money for one application. I wouldn't hesitate to use it on a GPU again, it's very good for that. However, as an example when I did an upgrade over Christmas I had to pull the CPU out four times and continually switch it back with the old one to troubleshoot.
I decided against it on my 3950x because I knew I was going to pull the cooler when my der8auer bracket finally arrived. Which it has, so I need to pull the cooler off and sort that soon. But that would have been another £8 down the drain.