Accidentally applied thermal paste

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samanz

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After applying thermal paste on my cpu, and mounting my cooler, I found out that the cooler already had pre-applied thermal paste.

Is this going to hurt my pc? Do I need to do something about it?
 
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Faktion
You probably have far too much thermal paste on there. I would get everything cleaned off and do a fresh application of paste.

Too much paste can be equally problematic for temps especially if you are using preapplied paste (that stuff is a bit sticky sometimes). You are probably completely preventing the cooler from contacting your CPU.
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You probably have far too much thermal paste on there. I would get everything cleaned off and do a fresh application of paste.

Too much paste can be equally problematic for temps especially if you are using preapplied paste (that stuff is a bit sticky sometimes). You are probably completely preventing the cooler from contacting your CPU.
 
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