Just put thermal paste on CPU cooler and installed it, but had to take it out again to fit ram. Should I clean and apply again

reSurGam

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Just got started on first build. I put thermal paste on CPU and installed cooler/heatsink (noctua nh-d14) but had to take it out again to fit ram. Should I clean my cpu and heatsink/cooler and apply again?