Thermal paste well aplied?. Hi, can you tell me if this thermal apste is well appled? or my computer is fried forever? (55c+ idle temp) . Hi, can you tell me if this thermal apste is well appled? or my computer is fried forever? (55c+ idle temp) From your...

thermal paste ans AS5 esp. if they were both lapped. The HSF is pretty flat, but the CPU is not. Note: Lapping WILL void your Warranty! My problem with the "standard" method of applying thermal paste that way with a bare heatpipe-type cooler is that as the...

if you have any problems just clean it up =) Thats not true. What moron told you that? You can use any thermal paste you want. Besides OEM cpu's don't come with a fan and they dont come with thermal paste either, so you would have to apply thermal paste....

Artic Silver 5 vs V8 Thermal Paste. If anybody has a Cooler Master V8, please help. I keep forgetting to ask but when I got my V8, it came with some kind of thermal paste inside the box with it, it says cooler master thermal compound on it, i never really...

Removing and Applying thermal paste to gfx card. hi all just bought thermaltake duorb, i know where to put all the heatsinks but what i dont know is how to remove the thermal paste from stock cooler, i dont want to hurt the card. Also i dont want to go and...

Will too much thermal paste actually INCREASE temps?. Will too much thermal paste actually INCREASE temps? Just read another post where someone re-seated their HSF with a smaller amount of thermal paste and apparently saw a 2-3 C reduction in temps with...

Quick question about thermal paste& cpu. It's been a while since I built a pc and I dont really remember every step I took... When applying thermal paste to the cpu, I know you completley cover the cpu with a light coat, but do you put a light coat,...

Thermal Paste Question. ok so I finally got my new computer parts in the mail yesterday and fully assembled it. still waiting on my radeon 5850 which i have preordered to test it out. i have the coolermaster v8 cpu cooler and i used the thermal paste it...

than some of the others I'm partial to silver-oxide based thermal paste. I used some radio-shack thermal paste once and it was more of an insulator than anything. The proc ran at 90c (no joke. P4 3.0 woodie). All I did was change the thermal paste to an...

Does the Intel Core i5-750 retail need thermal paste?. Does the Intel Core i5-750 retail need thermal paste?. Does the Intel Core i5-750 retail need thermal paste? As in do you need thermal paste to use the cpu and cooler? Yes. Do you need to buy your own...