The processor is square, the copper core is round. Revised several articles, applied to the processor, covering it completely. But Intel itself did not smear the entire processor, the trace of the thermal paste on it was round (from the radiator). It turns out to properly smear on the copper core of the radiator?

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Drip strictly in the center (do not smear) !.

If you pre-spread - guaranteed the presence of micro bubbles. And this is an obvious drop in thermal conductivity.

    As it came across the instructions, where it was written that the thermal paste needs to be dropped in the center of the processor, then when you put the radiator, it should spread. But in practice, you look at what kind of contact you have, usually this is the entire area of ​​the processor, and smear the thermal paste a little before reaching the edges, so that when you put the radiator, it does not squeeze it out.