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2500k heatsink and paste question.

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arachn1d

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I haven't installed it yet as all my parts aren't here yet but I was wondering something about the paste on the heatsink:

Do I leave the paste as is, or do I spread it around?

Last time I built a PC I used a AF heatsink and had to use my artic silver paste compound and spread it around, however I noticed this intel heatsink already has about 3 lines of it. Do I just slap it on the CPU without spreading it?

Should I wipe the paste on there and apply my old artic silver compound on it? About 3 years old if that matters.
 
If you plan on using the stock compound don't mess with it when you put your heatsink on.
 
Or completely remove the stock compound and clean heatsink then replace with Arctic Silver.
 
If you're going to run stock just use the stock paste. It's been my experience that AS5 doesn't age well in the tube and is supposed to be applied to chips a certain way to really get the performance boost.
 
Dark Shroud said:
If you're going to run stock just use the stock paste. It's been my experience that AS5 doesn't age well in the tube and is supposed to be applied to chips a certain way to really get the performance boost.
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Good tip. Thanks.
 
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