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Thermal Paste/ Heat pad??

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Just put together my new PC, but I forgot I didn't have any thermal paste lying around. I'm running a 2.8c with stock HSF, would it be ok to just run it for the time being with the supplied heat pad on the bottom of the heatsink, or do i really need thermal paste?

Also, if i run it with the heat pad will that melt and be permanent?

Thanks
 
This is if you don't overclock...

The temps might be a little on the high side, but are far from dangerous temps.


I wouldn't try much overclocking right now with the heat pad on though.
 
Well, basically, it's too late.

1) It's fine, esp. if you don't OC. Heatpads are fine for stock coolers on CPUs running at stock. However...

2) Heatpads are designed to melt and fill in the crevices of heatsinks and not come off. They are wax. So it'll take massive cleaning when you put the thermal paste on and the effectiveness may never be as good as it could have been.
 
Its actually recommended that you use thermal tape instead of thermal paste because due to the hardening of th ethermal paste you might pull the CPU out of the socket when you go to remove the heatsink.

Most people just heat up their processor though before trying to remove the heatsink.

As far as temps go you will be more then fine. I havn't ordered my new cooling stuff yet so mines just using the stock heatsink with thermal pad and its resting on 36C which is more then cool enough.
 
Originally posted by burningrave101
Its actually recommended that you use thermal tape instead of thermal paste because due to the hardening of th ethermal paste you might pull the CPU out of the socket when you go to remove the heatsink.

Most people just heat up their processor though before trying to remove the heatsink.

As far as temps go you will be more then fine. I havn't ordered my new cooling stuff yet so mines just using the stock heatsink with thermal pad and its resting on 36C which is more then cool enough.
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Well, technically, using thermal paste on at least AMD chips voids your warranty. AMD doesn't want to deal with people who used some conductive thermal paste and got it in the bridges. If you use the heatsink with a thermal pad, you will have to lap both the heatsink and the chip in order to regain the contact because as was stated, the wax fills in the crevices. Just get some cheap Rat Shack thermal paste or some AS5 for $5.
 
I plan on getting paste and am prepared for the clean up.

I just wanted to boot the thing up tonight... too anxious i suppose. oh well, should be ok. It's running at 57 c though, so i definitely want to switch to the paste. Or do something.
 
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