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The preapplied paste is generally fine or nearly as good as good aftermarket pastes such as NT-H1. Stick with the stock paste.

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I'm going to buy an AIO to my build, and the CPU block has been pre-applied with some thermal paste. Is that thermal paste way worse than i.ex. Noctuas aftermarket thermal paste? Does it really matter - should I or should I not spend extra 10$ for some other thermal paste?

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The preapplied paste is generally fine or nearly as good as good aftermarket pastes such as NT-H1. Stick with the stock paste.

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unless your going liquid metal it really doesn't matter you may at most get 1-2 degrees Celsius better temps by replacing the thermal paste

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The paste coming with aftermarket coolers is already better than what comes with stock coolers. No need to go with premium stuff.

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I would go ahead and buy a tube of whatever you want if you don't have any already. But using what comes pre-applied for your first installation won't be bad. You should just have thermal paste available if you ever do need to pull the cooler off.

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