I didn't take any photos, but I followed the directions and verified it was not oozing out from the edges, but still completely covering the face for the CPU.
Without using any paste I verified the "ZigZag" test was good (4 ultra thin strips of paper layed flat between the screws, lightly finger tight the scews and the papers gripped tight all the way around the CPU to Heatsink face)
I tried the “X”, 3-Lines, the 3mm Dot and the Plastic Spatula methods, all with the same exact results.
Perfect coverage over 100% of the face, no excess on the edges and still 100c constant after 3 seconds of heavy load.
5 grams of PK-3 and a 1 Gram tube of Grizzly Kryonaut and nothing changed at all.
I've built quite a few PC's since the 1980's and this one has me wishing I was back on a '286 with 640KB of RAM running DOS 3.0 again...at least they didn't overheat
(or even need a heatsink/cooler)
As it is, I think I'm going to swap this out for a new ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 360 to see if that fixes it.