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 (mx-1) already in place. Whoops! Fortunately, I haven't turned my PC on yet, so none of the compound has been "used" as such...
Would you guys recommend I re-install 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 other 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 guys!
Anyways, reading some threads I've only just realised that the Freezer Pro comes with some of its own compound (mx-1) already in place. Whoops! Fortunately, I haven't turned my PC on yet, so none of the compound has been "used" as such...
Would you guys recommend I re-install 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 other 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 guys!