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Thermal Paste
Name: Anderson (by Andson) Date: August 15, 2009 at 17:36:29 Pacific OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional CPU/Ram: 2.009 GHz / 510 MB Product: Biostar group / Nf61s-m2a Subcategory: General
Comment:
Do you get thermal paste when you buy a new Processor?? AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processor
Name: OtheHill Date: August 15, 2009 at 18:11:47 Pacific
Reply:
If you buy a RETAIL processor you will get an AMD Heatsink with a thermal pad attached. If you buy anything else (OEM) nother comes with it. You will need to get a new heatsink for that 6000 because you old one is not good enough.
Name: jam Date: August 15, 2009 at 18:15:37 Pacific
Reply:
If you buy the processor alone, usually not. If you buy the retail unit which includes a heatsink/fan, a thermal pad will be preinstalled on the heatsink. Radio Shack "heat sink grease" sells for about $3 a tube.
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Response Number 3
Name: T-R-A Date: August 15, 2009 at 18:20:30 Pacific
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And remember, if you get the thermal compound instead of a pad, there's an art to applying it to a CPU:
Summary: Hi, I'm installing a CPU fan for a Sempron 3000+ on an ECS 761GX socket 754 mobo. I got the mobo as part of a package, the CPU came preinstalled but the fan didn't. The fan is a CoolerMaster with a pr...
Summary: Hi just bought coolmaster thermal paste and wanted to know which way to apply it as i have never done this before and don't want to blow up the the CPU If you could help me i would be very very happy ...
Summary: No, the thermal pad is sufficient if it is new. Never mix both thermal pad and paste. If you remove the heatsink at some time in the future, remove all traces of the thermal pad and then apply therma...
Name: Anderson (by Andson)
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