Arctic Freezer 7 Pro + AS5 Conundrum

[daddyorchips]

Last night I installed an Arctic Cooler Freezer 7 Pro on my Conroe. I dug out some Arctic Silver 5 compound and applied a rice-sized blob of it to my cleaned CPU - like I've done on all of my previous CPUs - then installed the HSF on top.

Anyways, reading some threads I've only just realised that the Freezer Pro comes with some of its own compound already in place. Whoops! Fortunately, I haven't turned my PC on yet, so none of the compound has been "used" as such...

Should I bother re-installing the HSF? If so, should I just take it off, clean the AS5 off my CPU, then just replace the heatsink back on top? Should I try and clean any AS5 residue off the compound stuck to the bottom of the Freezer heatsink as well? Or is all this not really worth doing (will it make much difference?)??

Cheers!

 

[Pulsedriver]

I've got the same cooler coming tommorow.

Im gonna remove the MX-1 paste thats on the Freezer pro, and just apply AS5 to that and the CPU.

Try that

 

[daddyorchips]

Nice idea. However, I've just read a thread on [H] which shows the MX-1 working more favourably than the AS5. I might try to remove just the AS5 for now (the MX-1 compound looks more like putty stuck to the HSF at the moment, so should hopefully be easy-ish to clean the AS5 off of it).

If it doesn't work, I'll just take off the MX-1 and reapply the Arctic Silver 5.