Should I add thermal paste if I use a stock cooler?

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I have recently installed a Pentium G3220 and the stock CPU cooler that came with it. I noticed that the cooler already had some thermal paste applied onto it, so for now I haven't added some extra thermal paste on the CPU itself.

As a rule of thumb, should you always add thermal paste to the CPU too even if there is already some on the cooler?
 
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