I was wondering if anyone knew if it is possible to take off the thermal pad stuff on a stock CPU cooler and use Artic Silver 5. I went all out and got a AMD Phenom II X4 Processor 955 (3.2GHz) AM3 Black Edition but held off on a CPU cooler for the time being. I'm not planning on overclocking right away, just leaving it at default speeds for now, but am a little concerned about the stock cooler. I found some pictures of it and it is a lot better than the aluminum stock coolers from last time I built a computer (7 years ago) so I wasn't too worried, but still am wondering if I could take that pad off and put some real thermal grease on. I fixed my notebook a while back and still have almost all of the 3.5 gram tube of Artic Silver 5. Will it help that much if I do replace it? I remember looking at benchmarks done with it back in the day and it helped quite a bit, hence the reason I got it to fix my notebook.
Thanx,
Stan
Thanx,
Stan