

The interior of a PC generally runs at 32'C - 34'C (89.6'F - 91.6'F) while on idle and between 41'C and 50'C (105.8'F - 122'F) on full load provided it has adequate cooling. Wrong - the old paste *ABSOLUTELY* must be cleaned off every single time or it will end very badly. Linus said in a video that you should not apply new thermal compound when changing out CPU fans, and that the old paste is fine. and remember that temp sensor in the cpu only monitors one spot within the die and if that side of the die is not overheating it will allow the other side to Burn and not shut it down. Also it could have contact but its not over the actualy die it will provide some cooling to half the die but one side of the die could overheat leading to failure. you could just have only 1% or less actually contact area and it will Burn.

thermal paste just helps create a lot better surface area contact between the heat sink and the cpu and two well matched pieces of metal this is unessary but because there are inperfections in the surfaces of the cpu and heat sink metal. Yes a cooler without any thermail paste will still provide some cooling, I can sit a 10lb piece of metal on the cpu it will provide some cooling. its not me or any one else here that's gong to have to get a new cpu when it fails due to poor cooling. Yes go right ahead and don't use any thermal paste. any smooth talking person can sound "knowledgable" doesn't mean that person is right. I did for 4 hours last night.Īnd another follower of Linus because he seems "Cool". Then you get the other question, how much and should you spread it around. Im sure his best practice speech would say to use new thermal paste. I wont bother to try and find it but the cool cat seems knowledgable. The title must have been $10,000 or $10K system, maybe add build in there. You should see him moving the cooler around, dropping crap, talking to the chat room, roof camera. Some kid won a contest to build the best system, so Linus built it. Think it was the 1:30:00 (H:M:S) video on $10,000 system, x99a mobo, i7?, to mixed GPU's which stunned him. He had an old system and messed around with it. He did a test on that and he says it doesnt need new thermal paste. Yes you need new thermal paste every time you remove a coolerīro, my newest coolest dude is Linus Tech Tips with his cool earrings.
