Advice on re-applying Thermal Paste versus buying a Wraith or After-market cooler.

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Okay, when I get a new computer build, I wanted to give my brother my current desktop (FX-6300). The only problem is that I want to keep it cool as possible.
I was looking around for Wraith cooler with the black top(125W), because I feel it better than the 95W one.
If I can't find one when I am looking, I might just purchase a Cooler Master Blizzard T2 Mini because I don't want a big cooler weighing on the CPU/mobo, personal preference.(Plus I don't like the height of the big coolers). Yet, if my normal AMD cooler is enough, I would like to know to avoid having to go buying.

Additional info:
1. System only pushes the CPU to 3.6Ghz(Task Manager).
2. With an HDD the highest I ever clocked was 3.8Ghz, Turbo Core off.
3. Cloning the HDD to an SSD I can't go past 3.7Ghz in Bios or it blue screens.
So, I keep it 3.6Ghz, I haven't pushed the processor and it might not have dwindled its life by much.

(My decisions above about buying what and clocking to what are non-negotiable. Also, the other panel cover on the computer has an internal metal covering the bottom of the motherboard part of the CPU and I will have to weld it off, so that is annoying to say the least, thus why I just want something I can connect on top of the mobo like the default AMD coolers, or have to pull out the entire mobo the long way.)
 
Solution
125W Wraith comes with FX 8370 so it should be more than good enough for 6300 at those frequencies and more.
That T2 is not even as good as standard FX 6300 cooler.

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Thanks for the tip, I never got an e-mail about a reply to this thread. I'll get my friend's Wraith that came with his FX-8350 since he is going liquid cooling.