Do I NEED to replace the thermal compound?

CRITICALThinker · Mar 28, 2014

I have been slowly collecting parts from old computers, and throwing away the bad ones (power supplies and cases are the hardest to get a hold of) and being curious I had removed the heatsinks from a P4, PD, and an Athlon X2 and switched the Pentiums between a two motherboards[I probably will keep them in the motherboards they came with], My plan is to hopefully build a no cost NAS server, and a free HTPC with the Athlon. My question is, do I need to clean the parts and replace the thermal compound, or can I just keep the heatsinks on the processors? And how much would that cost me?

snakebitex · Mar 28, 2014

Yeah why not you have already open them so why don't apply a thermal paste. My 2c opinion

ahnilated · Mar 28, 2014

I would change it out as you have no idea how old it is and it isn't very difficult to put new thermal paste on the CPU.

procyen · Mar 28, 2014

Cleaning a computer and applying new thermal paste can make old computer run like new. And it will cost only 14 bucks, 5-7$ for a air-can that can be used about 4 times it cleaning a whole computer, 7-30$ on thermal paste depending on how much you want.

CRITICALThinker · Mar 28, 2014

I guess I will just hit Memory Express and buy a $8 4g tube for them, I was really hoping that I could just put the heatsink back on and use them like that, but if it is a better idea to replace the compound I will just do that.

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