I opened my PS3 to replace the CMOS battery which involves exposing the processors. The guide I was using said to use a pea-size amount after cleaning the old paste off because the heatsink would spread it out. Is this enough to prevent major problems, or would spreading a thin layer or "X" shape have been better?
Model is CECHL03 (Fat) and thermal paste I used is Arctic MX4 if that changes anything
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Yup, should be enough.
You can also make a X shape with the paste, but this works too.
I always use personally the same amount as you did and then spread it over the whole chip.
Everyone got his own method for this :).
Please let us know how it goes!
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@dan0 I didn't manually spread it over the chip as I thought it would do that itself when the clamps were tightened. Presumably that's still fine right?
Yes that is still fine :)! Should do the job!
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Yes, that looks to be a perfect amount for PS3. It may not look like much now, but once you squish it up against the CPU it will be plenty.
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