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I just finished build my father his new pc and right at the time to install the thermal paste the last tiny amount of mx4 came out and I had to add on top of it some of the terrible paste that came with the box is mixing paste going to harm the 3600x or not I have a order of some new mx4 on the way should I clean it off now or wait till the new paste comes

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should be fine. I had to mix pastes on a build recently for the exact same reason and temps are A OK. 

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On 8/29/2021 at 6:37 AM, Coruption said:

is mixing paste going to harm the 3600x

Imagine mixing different detergents - they may work better together and some may say they do, but if they won't - you'll know about it too late.

On 8/29/2021 at 6:37 AM, Coruption said:

wait till the new paste comes

You'll be alright for the meantime, but changing it to one compound is heavily prefered as it makes stuff more predictable when it will eventually start to dry

Futureproof your builds and try not to fry anything

 

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