I used paste supplied with the PC. Probably should have bought some Arctic Silver.
I put a pea-sized glob in the middle of the CPU and spread it with my finger over the entire surface. Then tried to smooth it out with my finger, but wherever I touched seemed to pull the paste off, so there...
I just built my first PC with an Intel Q9550 (not over-clocked). I am concerned that I didn't apply the thermal paste to the CPU properly since I had never done that before.
At idle, the BIOS says the CPU temp is 57C. Speedfan says it is 49C.
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