Question on Thermal Paste

[Guest]

Just a quick little noobie question:

 

Does thermal paste come with a CPU Cooler, CPU, Motherboard, or do you have to buy it separately? (And if so, where and what cost?)

 

If it depends on the kind of components I have, I'm getting an i7-3770K with a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO and an Asus P8Z77-V LK Mobo.

 

Thanks :)

[HirgaLTTki]

Buy it yourself only a few bucks a tube

[MooseParade]

Just a quick little noobie question:

 

Does thermal paste come with a CPU Cooler, CPU, Motherboard, or do you have to buy it separately? (And if so, where and what cost?)

 

If it depends on the kind of components I have, I'm getting an i7-3770K with a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO and an Asus P8Z77-V LK Mobo.

 

Thanks :)

 

The 212 Evo will come with a tube of TIM. It's decent. The best is IC Diamond 24 Carat which is about $18 a tube.

[Denned]

If you buy boxed CPU coolers there's often applied something onto the cooler.

I think many air coolers come with a little tube. Not sure if it's all that common with watercooling blocks though.

However it's always a good thing to have laying around. It's not that expensive and you might need it at a later point. Rather that, then having to wait for it, because it wasn't included :P

[MJOLNITR VIPER]

The 212 Evo will come with a tube of TIM. It's decent. The best is IC Diamond 24 Carat which is about $18 a tube.

It may seem expensive but it will last a long time because you dont use much of it at all. The less the better.

[Hyydrah]

Generally, bundled TIM isn't great, though it can be. I recommend getting TIM on its own such as IC Diamond or NT-H1.

[MPX309]

I just bought a corsair H55 which had paste pre applied, but I wiped it off n applied some antec formula 7 stuff I already had. 

[Guest]

Alright thanks :)

Just needed to know if I needed to buy thermal paste separately.