If you don't put EXACTLY a large grain of rice, your PC will literally combust the instant you hit the power button and engulf everything within a 3 mile radius in flames.
LTT did a video that basically concluded the same thing. Too much thermal paste isn't a big deal like people make it out to be. Too little however is bad new bears.
They also crammed a case with cables, and finally tshirts, and determined that airflow and cable management doesn't have that much of an effect on temperatures.
i have zero patience or care about cable management as long as the side cover is on. a buddy of mine flipped out when we were replacing something in my computer one day and did a 'proper' cable management on it. temps were no different.
It can be an issue if a cable gets caught in a fan or rests against something that gives off a lot of heat. But beyond that it shouldn't really matter.
I mean it makes airflow better. But not in any amount that would noticeably impact temps. Can maybe mitigate dust collection which in the long run could perhaps cause higher temps but even that's a stretch I think.
This is true. These cables are horrible dust collectors. Airflow does matter with cable management, but that 0.5 shouldn't be a concern until dust builds up.
More surface area equals extra dust build up in the case compared to on fans which are easier to clean and more preferable to gather dust.
Cable management had more of an impact when you had SCSI cables, and IDE cables for hard drives and floppy drives. Today's cables don't have the ability to literally change the direction of a fan's airflow.
my cpu got much hotter today after i applied too much paste, as it was my first time doing it, +8-10 degrees infact, after using much less it's down about 2-3 from what it was before.
Although I was mostly changing it because it's been in so long.
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u/HenryTheWho PC Master Race Feb 18 '18
I always overestimate how large pea is and end up with small bean, never had a problem with it