Dd i just kill my procesor? No paste

Just had a close call with my new 2600k. The H80 was still in the mail, so mounted the stock heat sink so I could test out everything. One of the bloody connector pins must have come loose. I was in the bios and noticed the idle temps climbing to 78C or so. Doh!
 
coolpurplefan said:
lol, I guess I don't need anything else than my Arctic Ceramique but I wonder what happens when it has "settled" in the tube for several years. I'll try shaking it before using it again.

I can't wait to see if it dried out on a processor which I want to replace. My temps lately didn't seem great even though the BIOS says it's in the 30 Celsius range, HW says the cores are often 48 Celsius. I suspect I have a lot of dust too in my Coolermaster Gemini S II.
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Shaking it will prove futile. The stuff is way too thick and dense to be shaken....
 
Thermal paste in part is for fill imperfections on the heatsink... If you put a bunch of thermal paste you may get high temps ;)
 
WOW that video brought back some memories! I dont know if there was enough compound on that first socket 462 processor :D
 
Well, that was likely done to stop condensation damage in a LN2 rig. Since ceramic paste is non-conductive, it provides a good air-free environment while still allowing the CPU to operate normally.
 
Yes...best thermal contact would be perfectly lapped heatsink/cpu and no thermal paste!

Paste is for noobs only! :D (including me...meh effort!! :( I have a lapped heatsink...)
 
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