Few questions regarding thermal paste and cooling for a Centrino

[hazard666]

Well I'm currently in the process of upgrading my laptop processor to a 1.8ghz Centrino processor but upon tearing everything down, I have realized that the heatsync for the cpu uses a patch of thermal tape instead of thermal paste. What should I do in this situation? Should I remove the thermal tape and swap the cpu and heatsync down with some alcohol? Should I try to apply some thermal paste onto the thermal tape? Or should I just leave it how it is?

Thanks for you help in advance. Would like to get a responce as soon as possible considering the laptop is in 80 pieces right now.

 

[Matt2]

You can take the tape off and use paste as long as the heatsink makes solid contact.