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just changed the thermal paste on my cpu, this is the first time that I do something intense like that with my pc the hardest thing that I ever done was installing a new hard drive my max temp for the cpu was 95 (pretty old dual core) and now it does not exceed 65 on rendering. I feel so happy  I'm proud of my self :D

 

the temp might be a little high for you but for an old dual core with Intel stock fan it's fine

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thermal paste wouldn't bring the temps down that much

you must have installed the heatsink wrong the first time

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Its more than likely due to bad contact with the cooler. Thermal paste wont make that much of a difference (unless there was none?)

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thermal paste will only give you a max of like 5C difference

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Well it's likely that the old paste dried up enough to where it no longer conducted heat properly.

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Just use mayonnaise and call it a day.

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the thermal paste was 5 years old so that's might be the reason!

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That's the kind of temperature difference you would expect from not using thermal paste vs using some. Which thermal paste you use doesn't matter much, as long as you do use some.

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the thermal paste was 5 years old so that's might be the reason!

My original thermal paste was about 2-3ish years old and that was the driest thing i've ever seen.

Better off with using mustard.

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Just use mayonnaise and call it a day.

Heard it is also an instrument.

 

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The only difference I've ever seen it make was with my mom's Phenom 511 a use it was using like 6 year old thermal paste from the stock AMD heatsink.

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I have just started to get into this computer stuff if I knew this before I would have replaced the thermal paste after every 6 months 

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