Found out my thermal paste application method was probably wrong for 6 years

Ran across an old Gamers Nexus video from 2023. They tested pea vs line vs spread methods for thermal paste. Turns out the line method works better for most CPUs. I always did the pea method. Over 100 builds. My temps on a Ryzen 5 3600 dropped 4 degrees after I switched. That's 6 years of potentially higher temps for nothing. Makes me wonder how many other accepted "rules" in this trade are based on outdated data. Is the pea method still the standard for a reason, or are we all just repeating what we heard in 2016?

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