What kind of thermal paste to use in Older CPU's

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Hello, i have a problem on my P4 CPU in my older system, it keeps overheating even when i clean my heatsink and fan. Its still overheats so i plan to put a new thermal gel or thermal paste. what kind of thermal paste should i use?
 
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Any thermal paste will be fine. Arctic Silver 5 is very good and not expensive. You only need a rice grain sized amount so only get a small container.
If he's cleaned his cpu and heatsink, and has no thermal paste to apply, he needs thermal paste, not a cpu cooler. I'll agree that it's a good idea over the stock cooler but if he overheats after properly applying the paste, with no overclock, the problem is larger than just the stock cooler. He shouldn't be overheating with the stock cooler regardless of what he's doing if the cpu is at stock clocks unless there's no paste or the cooler isn't working at all. Or, if there is no case cooling fans.

And the 212 EVO should fit a Pentium 4.
 

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But my older system is a Socket 478 since Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO supports only LGA775
 


Wrong, the 212 EVO fits a wide variety of CPUs and sockets.

Intel Socket:
LGA 2011-3* / 2011* / 1366 / 1156 / 1155 / 1150 / 775

AMD Socket:
FM2+ / FM2 / FM1 / AM3+ / AM3 / AM2+ / AM2

But apparently not yours. I'll check into this more as I was sure it supported the Pentium 4.
 

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Even in Polaris -30 Motherboard??
 

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Yeah i've applied before... and now my PC starts overheating... i've applied thermal paste about a year ago...
 

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My case is a Samsung Desktop case.. No model name or something....