Thermal paste core i7 930 help

[Sickamore]

I am Building my set up. I have the heatsink from intel for now. I bought my own thermal paste. Should i remove the one that came with the heat sink and apply my own. The one on the heatsink is small doesnt cover every where on the cpu.

 

[Rifter]

are you going to overclock? if so the buy a better heatsink and re-apply the paste then. If not the just keep it how you have it.

 

[Sickamore]

To late i applied my own. I will clean it later i havent bought my heatsink yet. I will buy october.

 

[wpcoe]

The one on the heatsink is small doesnt cover every where on the cpu.

I realize it's too late now (just couldn't wait, could ya? :biggrin, but the one that was on the heatsink, though small, does "melt" and end up covering most (probably all) of the CPU.

When applying paste, to a large extent, less is better. Too much paste is counter productive. You only want enough to fill in the grooves on the CPU and the heatsink, not a thick slather.