i pulled my new processor from the heatsink, is this gonna cause damage?

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Only that Arctic Silver is not that great a product. Get Prolimatech PK-1 instead.

And "wet", well no, that paste is supposed to remain a paste so it better conducts the heat. Usually it is some sort of grease actually. Nonetheless it must be replaced every time you take the cooler off the CPU. This does include carefully cleaning away the old stuff. Use isopropyl alcohol or, even better, chloroform to do this.

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I am confident it is not worse than the one that used to be on the chip before. They do not use elite pastes in mass production after all. Using it should be fine.

I wonder anyway what beyondlogic bases his assessment upon.
 



>1.46 W/m-K is its thermal conductivity id consider it on par or roughly same as the manufactured stuff


 



>1.46 W/m-K is its thermal conductivity id consider it on par or roughly same as the manufactured stuff


most other pastes are 3-4 or 8