question regarding thermal paste

alexiusyap

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Jul 13, 2013
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hello all so i bought an i3 2100 used just a week ago but it didn't come with thermal paste and so now i am wondering if it is fine to run it without any thermal paste, although the hsf does have a bit left from previous use but it is sort of dried up now, will this suffice or would i need to buy thermal paste? which i cant since i used up all my money to finally build my pc... oh, the irony
 
Solution
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! Clean both surfaces and apply fresh thermal paste properly or else you'll be back here tomorrow asking why your CPU is over heating.

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