I've never used a heat sink compound in any of my builds and never had a problem. I just place the heat sink/fan directly on the processor. But I was talking with someone and they said you MUST put a heat sink compound on a processor. Is this true or is this just something additional that would only be necessary for over clockers and the like? BTW this computer will only surf the web and do some applications.
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Heat sink compound
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most cpu coolers come with a thermal pad attached to the base of it(usually a pink color), while not as effective as actual thermal compound they work fine for your average system. no thermal pad and no thermal compound(metal on metal) is not a good idea in my book, it will cause temperatures to be much higher than they need to be and may result in instability.
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What kind of systems have you been building?!?!? 
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Compond is use to fill the cracks between contact points.The truth of compound is there is not but a few degress c between the best and the worse.The point is just use something,but for overclockers you will want the best as every degrees counts then.