Uneven CPU thermals!

Just curious, was PTM available back then?
Just wondering why they did not mention it there.

I have watched a few PTM7950 videos (I know, not very scientific!) and it is interesting that on paper PTM does not look that amazing compared to paste, but when actually applied it seems to perform better than paste.

The video link above, at the end, does say Liquid metal is still a little be better than PTM, but not much. So, it would appear that FW choice of LM was a good one, but maybe, as mentioned in this thread, it might not have been applied in the factory correctly.