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Originally Posted by soundman98
much less critical for personal builds of course, but when i was servicing pc-based camera dvr's, i learned very quickly that 'included thermal grease' was a bad thing--most of them were cheap, and would dry out within 2-3 years, and then have overheating issues. i always would apply arctic silver to any heatsink because it didn't dry out.
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Well, when I built my system earlier this year with an AMD processor the thermal grease was more a "thermal patch" the size of the processor and probably an 1/8th of an inch thick. It would have been a serious pain to remove it and apply something different. So for, no issues with temps.