Ok so a year ago I built a box that is now dead, dead motherboard. I am putting everything else in a new gigabit mobo in my same case but I have a question. I put thermal paste on the old processor and I know I can use rubbing alcohol to get it off, but I have had some people tell me that thermal paste isn't even that important in the first place.
Do I really need to take it off and reapply it (im using the same heatsink, just moving cpu and heatsink to a diff motherboard) or can I just move everything and the temp problems shouldn't be that bad?
Running at full load my q6600 with stock cooling never went high above 55C if ever....
Do I really need to take it off and reapply it (im using the same heatsink, just moving cpu and heatsink to a diff motherboard) or can I just move everything and the temp problems shouldn't be that bad?
Running at full load my q6600 with stock cooling never went high above 55C if ever....