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Most thermal pastes are about equal in effectiveness so stick with any name brand and you should be good.
For application I typically clean both the CPU's heatspreader and cooler contact point with alcohol then squeeze out about a small pea sized amount of paste on the center of the heatspreader then let the mount force of the cooler spread it.