Gam3r01 gave you very good advice! If your temps are ok (and they seems to be) why fiddling further? Amount of paste is not some exact science and so, when amount is about right, it all comes down to mounting pressure and cooler base material quality. By re-mounting cooler you just challenge your luck (that something might go wrong).
Yeah look your absolutely right, but I have psycho maniac levels of OCD and just won't be able to let it go and sleep at night constantly thinking it might be too little, especially when people here seem to think so and some friends of mine thought it was little as well. In regards to something might go wrong, honestly, I bought the cooler around oct/nov last year and the warranty goes for 2 years I think, after today I can assure you I'll never be taking apart the cooler again, I'll only ever open up the case to dust the heatsink and fan once or twice a year, so if something is going to go wrong, it would be better if it happened now then after warranty right, in regards to the quality/batch or whatever? aha, I wholeheartedly agree with you though. Being my first ever build as well, I just gotta do it, you know, more peace of mind, I NEED TO SEE IT WITH MY OWN EYES, lmao.
Your temps look great their no reason to do anything.
Too late! I have and here are my results.
View: https://imgur.com/a/lUIqiFn
(previous dot coverage)
SO! I took off the heatsink and look what we have here, surprisingly that teeny tiny little blob, that I honestly thought that would have just covered a little inner circle within the cpu frame, much like the stock intel cooler circle, actually did some sick coverage, except a little in the corners, so at the end of the day, you guys where actually right. But again, I just needed to learn and see it with my own eyes. After I saw how much the little blob actually managed to cover I went with a smaller "X" instead of a bigger one like in the youtube video.
View: https://imgur.com/a/XTXF9hb
(new X paste)
As for the temps, practically the same, + - 1/2c . I'm no genius but I wanna say that's basically the cap for this type of cpu, having done 2 tests. Could also just be that it hasn't completely settled since I ran the test for the tiny blob the next day where as for the
<Mod Edit> cross I ran the test moments after putting the paste in the same day. And I read that it takes even longer for the paste to reach its final form so I may even get better results later down the track. I can't remember the name, settle time or something.
View: https://imgur.com/a/4dxVT8R
In conclusion, if that tiny blob managed to cover that much space then the cross will definitely cover the same if not more then needed, which I'm okay with. I'd rather live on knowing I got the perfect amount (no such thing I know but comparing to blob), or just a little over, rather then not having enough.
Thank you all for your responses. This has been quite the learning experience for me.
<3
P.S Gained +100 stats to COURAGE, before I'd be too scared to even open up the side panels let alone touch the cpu.