I was having troubles with my northbridge heatsink being loose on my gigabyte ga78mlt usb3 motherboard so I decided to replace the paste on it. I was ignorant to the fact that this heatsink uses thermal pads instead of paste. Not knowing what it was I scraped it off and replaced it with thermal grease. I'm now worried that I could be causing damage to the board but everything is functioning properly and touching the heatsink it seems to be transfering the heat better to it.
In short my question is could I be causing overheating to the board by having replaced the northbridge hatsink's peeling thermal pad with thermal grease?
In short my question is could I be causing overheating to the board by having replaced the northbridge hatsink's peeling thermal pad with thermal grease?