Should I buy thermal compound or is it bundle with it?
1530961
The thermal compound that comes with it works just fine. It is however recommended that after 2 years or so you should clean the old paste off and add new thermal. Thermal dries out over time and you lose cooling. It's not something you need to really keep constant tabs on, when you notice that your temps are starting to rise a bit, just redo the thermal then. I recommend Arctic silver over anything else.
1530962
I always buy arctic silver. An not use what comes with them. So I don't really look to see
1530963
That's up to you; it does come with thermal compound already on the cooler. I don't know how good it is, since I didn't use it; I really like Noctua's NT-H1 compound, so I just used that (I have a ton of it on hand, though).
1918872
Yes, it comes with thermal paste on it. If you're like me though you'll want to have a backup tube of the stuff handy, as I wasn't satisfied with the way I had installed it the first time and had to do some fiddling to get it just right. A small tube is cheap and handy to have around.
1890324
Thermal Compound helps reduce the heat that is generated by your Graphic card. Heat is a killer of all graphic cards. When you open your graphic card to like replace the fan or fans you need to clean off the old thermal compound on your graphic card or cards and reapply a thin coat to the top of the card or cards (in my case a 5970 Radeon has 2 Graphic cards). Then replace say your fan and close your card again.
112691
It is a heat sink compound. It is used for cooling electronics components such as processors, transistors, led emitters, etc..
956430
Yes, make sure to update to the newest bios before installing CPU and apply a very good quality of thermal compound to CPU. Thanks, Discount18
1565336
It did not come with a separate tube but there was thermal compound already applied to the heat sink/fan that comes with the CPU. I did not know that either so I bought thermal compound that I did not end up using.
1836268
In a word, yes. Eurocom sells the GTX 980m GPU with the right thermal pads for about $800. You can actually upgrade it yourself if you know what you're doing. If not, call geek squad or someone like that. Hope this helped...
1078192
I believe this particular one is bare-bones, and doesn't come with any pre-applied TIM. Even if it did, I always recommend applying your own, and monitor your temps carefully, reapplying the TIM if necessary until you see satisfactory temps. Most thermal paste you could buy is "good enough" for most applications, but in your case I'd recommend Arctic Silver or some other metal-ish paste for the best heat transfer. That heatsink will work on most 95w cpu's, but will struggle with quad cores. Anything more than a mild overclock is not recommended.
770950
The supplier I purchased from Digiconcepts provided Thermal Compound etc. but you have to apply it yourself.
1355267
No compound included. Radio shack or local computer shop should have it for about $5.
1854989
The factory fan comes with a heat sink "square", and it will eliminate the need for thermal paste. That being said, it can't hurt to apply more, especially if you plan to overclock or tax the processor. So, you won't NEED to buy thermal paste, but for the minimal cost of the paste, and the significant dollar outlay for the processor, it sure couldn't hurt.
2245255
It is a thermal compound but it is different than others. It is not a paste. It is a liquid metal - Gallium. It is not to be used with aluminum as it will corrode the aluminum. It is fantastic if you want to use it directly on a die of a cpu for instance. Between the integrated heat sink (cover of a cpu) and a cooler it is somewhat better than most compounds. Just remember, keep it away from anything aluminum.
1112145
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419658
Negative, you'll need to buy your own with it and apply it with thermal glue should you purchase it
1038247
I'm not aware of the thermal compound, but the computer has a total of 4 RAM slots (up to 32gb). 2 of the RAM slots are easily accessible from the back panel, but the other 2 would require you to disassemble the computer to access. By default, ASUS put two 4gb sticks in the internal slots and left the two on the bottom open for you to put in more. The ram for this machine is DDR3 1600 MHz SDRAM. It has one 1TB hard drive and an empty hard drive bay. Have a good day!
1355265
The processor includes no thermal compound. However, the default cooling solution does come with two small strips of thermal compound on the processor contact point. This is sufficient for the default cooling solution, but if you plan on overclocking or using a 3rd party cooling solution, I'd buy some additional thermal compound.
1029106
If you use the fan/heatsink that comes with the CPU, it has thermal compound on it - which is all that I used.