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Intel e6300 core2Duo and thermal paste

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gregjunior

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My scenario:

I built a recent computer with the stock HSF and heat sink on an Intel e6300.

It turned out that the mother board was bad and there was no power that ever went to the board, however I did have the heatsink applied and the processor on the board.

My question now is will I have to remove the thermal paste that came preapplied on the heatsink and use new?

Here is the page from Intel that makes me confused:

http://support.intel.com/support/processors/sb/CS-023107.htm

Any replacement or reinstallation of the processor or fan-heatsink requires replacement of the thermal interface material. The integrity of the thermal solution is important because the processor will slow down if the thermal solution is not effective and eventually could cause the processor to shut down entirely.

What do you think, will I have to replace the "thermal material" or will I be ok?

thanks.
 
any time you pull out a processor and remove the heatsink you have to clean it off and put new thermal paste on
 
You say your MB was bad and wasn't powering up - has this CPU ever been powered up? If not, the thermal pad that comes on the stock HSF has never had a chance to soften up and "melt", due to the CPU heat. If this is the case, you should have absolutely no problem with reusing the thermal pad on the HSF - because it's never really been used. It will, likely, look just like it did when you mounted the HSF to the MB. That Intel document assumes the CPU has been powered up, causing the thermal pad to soften and melt, somewhat. Hope this helps.
 
I looked at the processor and the heatsink again and it looks like all the paste had melted into a round mess.
I didnt think that it would have melted since the MB didnt really work (fans didn't spin., etc) but apparently it did.
It looks like I will remove the old paste and put new on.

Thanks for the replies.
 
if youre not overclocking and dont care about temp's, just let it be. it'd be hotter but really no big deal at all.
 
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