do i have to use Thermal paste with this or not ?
942545
No, it comes with thermal paste on the copper block for you. All you do is take the little plastic cover off of it, plop it down on your CPU, and then do the appropriate mounting procedures for your particular CPU.
942546
To answer your question the cpu block comes with preapplied thermo paste, but I found it works much better if you carefully remove the factory paste and use a good thermo paste like cooler master or arctic freeze; Thermo paste is critical to use without it and you will fry the cpu. Hope this helps. Also be sure to clean the residual paste completely with alcohol or such before applying new paste very thinly. More is not better. :)
942547
if it's the same model that I got, then no. It comes coated with it's own thermal paste. Hope that helps!
100081
Mine came with a small packet of thermal paste. It was enough to try twice or so to get a good seal on the processor.
40449
Fine choice of processor, and you can overclock it. Yes I believe it does come with thermal paste.
1209187
I wouldn't use thermal paste older than 5 years. There's a good chance it'll still be fine but why risk your computer over something that costs less than $10 to replace?Definitely do not use paste that has begun to separate. Some people may suggest to just mix it back together but there's no real chance of getting back up to snuff once separation has begun.
1827373
It isnt necessary to use paste, because it isnt pc processor and it dont warm same pc processor. You need just to use the tape included.
1997089
Yes it comes with thermal paste no it isn't pre-applied. Anyhow arctic silver does a much better job than the stock cooler master paste. Not surprising since it's thrown in for free.
266047
no you have to supply your own thermal paste. There's instructions on youtube if you are wondering how to do it. it essence when you buy the paste you will have a plastic template put a generous blob of paste on top of the CPU and spread it around liberally with the template in place so that you are sure all of it is covered. Attach the fan to the top of this and screw it into position. Motherboards and fans do vary a lot so don't take my passing advice google exactly how to do it for your motherboard and fan/cooler as there's loads of video tutorials on youtube. I won't be held responsible for cooked CPU's. no you have to supply your own thermal paste. There's instructions on youtube if you are wondering how to do it. it essence when you buy the paste you will have a plastic template put a generous blob of paste on top of the CPU and spread it around liberally with the template in place so that you are sure all of it is covered. Attach the fan to the top of this and screw it into position. Motherboards and fans do vary a lot so don't take my passing advice google exactly how to do it for your motherboard and fan/cooler as there's loads of video tutorials on youtube. I won't be held responsible... » Read More no you have to supply your own thermal paste. There's instructions on youtube if you are wondering how to do it. it essence when you buy the paste you will have a plastic template put a generous blob of paste on top of the CPU and spread it around liberally with the template in place so that you are sure all of it is covered. Attach the fan to the top of this and screw it into position. Motherboards and fans do vary a lot so don't take my passing advice google exactly how to do it for your motherboard and fan/cooler as there's loads of video tutorials on youtube. I won't be held responsible for cooked CPU's. « Show Less
752774
Required? No. HOWEVER it is highly recommended you replace the old heat sink. If you leave the old heat sink on then you are ensuring a shortened life of the $200+ chip you just bought. I'd spend the $15 and ensure the chip doesn't get as hot. This is always a good practice on CPUs, DLP chips, or any thing that has a heat sink. If you've never removed old thermal paste/heat sink before and don't have any chemical remover, rubbing alcohol works wonders. Make sure you remove it all and allow the surface to dry. To apply thermal paste such as arctic silver simple apply a pea sized amount onto the now cleaned and dry area and spread smoothly with anything that has a straight edge. I have used a thick business card or scissors in a pinch before.
493873
The thermal paste is on the heatsink. You do not have to apply any to the CPU. You just gently put the heatsink on top of the CPU (after the CPU is on the motherboard). Why this CPU? I own it and love it but it is an older AMD CPU/APU. There are several new iterations of AMD APU's that have been released since this the A8-3850 that are better and at the same or similar price.This CPU/APU is no longer being actively produced by AMD and you will need to get an older compatible motherboard too.
909719
Yes but if it was used you need to get some thermal paist because the pre applied stuff is only good for one use (unless they never used the stock heat sink)
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).
1827823
Yes. Best thermal compound for all CPU and heatsinks. Heat transfer is super great.
1676303
No, as long as you make sure your socket type is listed in the description, you won't have any issues. Also, when you get it, and before you put thermal paste on, make sure you do a mock-up with your ram in place to make sure it doesn't hit, I had to get low-profile ram after getting this cooler.
1101156
it is actually called thermal paste and arctic silver is the best to get and just one good drop in the middle of the cpu on the back side is all you need. it will spread out when you install the cooling fan and heat sync
1278050
I believe mine was just the CPU, and we used an old fan. We bought thermal paste separately.
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.
1863213
Yes. It comes with a small fan and thermal Paste which didn't work well. I bought a larger fan and a thermal gel kit to clean off the paste and thermal gel to apply between the and the processor.