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Can you use the thermal passe that comes with the CPU Cooler, or do you have to buy a more expensive one to get maximum performance?

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there are only small differences in all thermal pastes so you are good with the only that comes with the cooler.

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Paste**

You can just click the edit button ;)

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The thermal paste that comes with the cpu cooler is good enough to cool your cpu and for overclocking.

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