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Always use thermal paste to insure good thermal transfer between a CPU heat spreader and a heat sink or other thermal dissipater. 

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Is it safe NOT to put thermal paste when testing a cpu. Or should I Always put thermal paste?

 

 

 

 


 

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Always use thermal paste to insure good thermal transfer between a CPU heat spreader and a heat sink or other thermal dissipater. 

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Always use thermal paste to insure good thermal transfer between a CPU heat spreader and a heat sink or other thermal dissipater. 

 

 

 

Always use TIM. Your CPU may overheat very quickly without it. 

 

So everytime I remove a cpu and put it in another mobo, should I reapply everytime or should i just let it be?


 

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So everytime I remove a cpu and put it in another mobo, should I reapply everytime or should i just let it be?

 

I would personally apply new thermal paste (after removing the old) everytime you take the cooler off the CPU (Which you probably do if you take it out of the motherboard)

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At the very least you should have a load of the cheaper stuff set aside for tests. I've got a 150g tube of it-and its been bloody good as my AS5 isn't wasted.

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