Thermal paste - do I need it?

thelawnet

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I've got a retail C2D E6600 installation in an asrock mboard. I'm ditching the Asrock and putting it in an Asus P5B-E Plus wth an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro.

Should I just move the CPU over and put the heatsink on top using the Intel paste that's already on the chip, or do I need to get some thermal paste? Will the thermal paste make a difference?

Incidentally does anyone have benchmarks for temps of the Freezer 7 Pro as compared with the stock Intel? How many degrees will I be cutting off the temperature.

I'm going to be overclocking using 4*1GB of Corsair PC2-6400 CL4 RAM.
 

catalysts17az

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give me a link to AC MX-1 i have always used arctic silver 5, its also still good after 3 yrs! as i just changed out my HSF that i bought about 3 months ago (i have no time) took out my 9500 and put in a 9700 (Zalman) but i now know that there are 2 other better HSF, but i am happy.
 

Fullmetal Chocobo

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I've been using Ceramique for a long time, and I recently got a tube of MX-1 for my C2D, and I have to say that it was the easiest to apply that I've used thus far.
 

catalysts17az

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when i bought my 9700 it too came with some thermal grease, but i do not know how good it is so i did not use it and used my trusty old AS5, but does anyone know how good that thermal grease is that comes with the 9700.
 

Agentbolt

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Depends, actually. If you were willing to spend a few hours lapping both the heatsink and CPU with like 2000 grit sandpaper, and using a laser skreed to measure for any unevenness, you could definitely get away with just copper to copper contact. A fairly insane friend of mine tried to do it by eye and his old Pentium D ran at about 90 degrees C.

Would've been cool, though.
 

Gautama2

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Originally posted by: catalysts17az
give me a link to AC MX-1 i have always used arctic silver 5, its also still good after 3 yrs! as i just changed out my HSF that i bought about 3 months ago (i have no time) took out my 9500 and put in a 9700 (Zalman) but i now know that there are 2 other better HSF, but i am happy.

Freezer will come with with AC MX-1 pre-applied.