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Thermal paste for an E8500 overclock

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I'm getting a Core 2 Duo E8500 and I know this thing doesn't come with thermal paste. (Just the cheap thermal pad on the heatsink) So my question is, what is a good thermal paste that I can get that's not to expensive? Planning to overclock to 3.6 - 3.8 ghz ....

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Artic Silver 5 or Artic Cooling MX-2 Thermal paste.

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Reply to dallasjoh

dallasjoh wrote :

Artic Silver 5 or Artic Cooling MX-2 Thermal paste.


^That is indeed the answer to all questions regarding thermal paste and overclocking.


Message edited by doomsdaydave11 on 09-28-2008 at 08:14:13 PM
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Reply to doomsdaydave11

dallasjoh wrote :

Artic Silver 5 or Artic Cooling MX-2 Thermal paste.


Agreed

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