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Mounting a new fan to CPU - do I need to clean old paste off

spartacuskzm

Senior member
the sides of the contact area? The top of the metal piece/processor (the square in the middle) is completely clean (used goof-off), however the sides still have a fair amount of residual thermal compound (was the OEM AMD heatsink).

TIA.
 
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