Cooling Fan and heatsink installation

[mightymo]

I'm in the process of building a new system using an ASUS A7V motherboard with an AMD 900 MHz cpu. I purchased a Cooler Master heatsink and fan (DP5-6H11) and I'm not sure whether -or-not I need to put some heat sink compund on the cpu and heatsink. There's a patch of phase change interface material on the bottom of the heatsink that's supposed to melt when it gets hot enough and fill the area between the CPU and heatsink. Is this good enough or should I add heat sink compound?

 

[bacillus]

double posting???????

 

[Hanky]

If you don't want to overclock the pad will be good enough, but afaik it's usable only once. I always remove the pads and put some good thermal compound on the core because it decreases the CPU temperature a bit.
So, if you just want to put the heatsink on the CPU and forget about it, then use the pad, if not, get Artic Silver.