Help with fitting new processor

[Scruffyballs]

Hi.

I've just bought an AMD Athalon 64 X 2 6000+. I've fitted the processor onto my motherboard and i need to fit the heatsink and fan. It's a retail bought processor but i'm aware that i need thermal paste or a thermal pad or something before i fit the heatsink/fan. Do i need to buy some or is there already some kind of themal pad that comes with the processor? There's a dull grey square on the bottom of the heatsink... Is that something "thermal"? :confused:

Thanks in advance for any help :)

[marsey99]

:)

yes thats the thermal paste they supply, not the best but it will work.

[Scruffyballs]

:)

yes thats the thermal paste they supply, not the best but it will work.

Thanks alot :O

[Mul.]

Yeah it's the grey stuff on the bottom of the heatsink. It works just fine!

[alexnifty]

If your running at stock speeds then the stuff that comes with the heatsink is perfectly good.

Wise idea to double check like you did 8)

[coiler]

ive seen many cpus with a thermal pad and paste applied as well LOL

[alexnifty]

:facepalm:

I think I saw a picture once of someone who used toothpaste or something. There was another of stickytape o.0

[Mul.]

:facepalm:

I think I saw a picture once of someone who used toothpaste or something. There was another of stickytape o.0

Might not have been me but I certainly tried it and it worked for a while :P

I have a log of it on another forum but it's down at the moment.

[marsey99]

i have a m8 who ran a sempy oc'd to 2.6ghz from 1.8ghz with no tim under a stock blower for over 6 months and it still runs fine to this day.

it did crash when he tried to game on a 8800gtx for too long tho :D

bottleneck dont even start to describe it tho.

[alexnifty]

I remember when I was younger I took the heatsink off my 800Mhz Athlon (just to have a look) and saw this paste.

I thought "Well clearly thats insulating the chip" and promptly cleaned it off, never had an issue with it after.