Do you have to use thermal paste on your cpu? I need to clean my heatsink because its packed full of dust and the temps have risen by 5 odd degrees. Think is to do this i'm gonna have to remove the hs from the cpu right? But i dont rememeber ever putting paste on the cpu when I built my rig around a year ago. Temps have always been around 30 to 35 degrees but now its up 2 about 40.
So my questions are:
-Will i need to remove the cpu from the heatsink? (its a stock hs and fan)
-If so, will i have to use thermal paste?
So my questions are:
-Will i need to remove the cpu from the heatsink? (its a stock hs and fan)
-If so, will i have to use thermal paste?