Should i change thermal grease in this case ?

[SaM_SpArK]

I was installing my cpu water cooling (DeepCool maelstorm 240t) for my Core i7 6700k CPU.

When i pushed the heatsnik to the cpu i realized i have screwed mounting plate wrong so i had to pick it up again so that the thermal grease left on the cpu.

It got 2 minutes to re-screw the mounting bracket and i placed it on the cpu again.

Is it ok ??!!!

Need to add that thermal grease was applied on the heatsnik by default.

 

[n0ns3ns3]

I'd probably replace whatever junk they shipped with this cooler with Arctic MX-4 anyway.
it's very cheap and very good thermal paste.

 

[ccampy]

Actually most preapplied thermal paste is pretty good the 2c or so you will gain by changing it ia not normally worth the time and effort to change

 

[n0ns3ns3]

1. it can be more than 2 degree. I've seen 6-7.
2. they can have shorter lifespan. dry thermal paste reduces performance.
I wouldn't trust that shitcool included anything decent. They are not EKWB that including up to Thermal Grizzly with their products.