[ComputerGuru]

I clicked eagerly and appreciated the approach but not the analysis of the results. The only judging criteria was "coverage" (enough but not too much) but no thought was given to thickness, and some application patterns lend themselves to thicker results (just compare the five dots pic to the full coverage or three lines pic). You can see from the results that the "winners" have a fairly thick layer of substrate. You want the absolute thinnest layer of thermal paste that will achieve full coverage.