Temporary use of Intel TIM goo

[N7SC]

Because Newegg (best price, by far) is out of stock on the Swiftech H20-120 CPU water cooling kit, my water kit won't be arriving with the rest of my stuff for my new computer this week. So I can either wait for another week or so to build it and turn it on, or use the stock Intel hovercraft on the CPU temporarily (and keep it at stock speed for now too). You can guess the route I want to take.

Isn't the stock Intel TIM some kind of parafin pad or something? Like I don't want it to melt and booger up the surface of the cpu heat spreader, right? Thus, the question is, can I peel the stock TIM pad off of the Intel cooler, clean it off, and use a dab of the Shin-Etsu X23 that I have? If so, what would remove the traces of the parafin from the bottom of the stock cooler so it won't gum up the processor's heat spreader? Or is the stock TIM pad or whatever provided separately from the cooler?

Thanks guys.

BTW, what is on the way from Newegg and a few other sources is:
E6600, Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3, Lian-Li PC-A10 case (silver), Seagate Barracuda ES 320 SATA3 HD, PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610, ATI FireGL 3300 (Since I do graphics, and no gaming, I thought I was a good, economical choice - hope I'm right), and a few extras. The 2Gigs of Kingston DDR2 667 PC 5300 Value RAM is already here. After I get the Swiftech kit on it, I plan to run it at a raw clock of 333, which should give FSB 1333, and CPU clock of 2.997 GHz. Will run at stock with the Intel HSF.

 

[1Tanker]

Because Newegg (best price, by far) is out of stock on the Swiftech H20-120 CPU water cooling kit, my water kit won't be arriving with the rest of my stuff for my new computer this week. So I can either wait for another week or so to build it and turn it on, or use the stock Intel hovercraft on the CPU temporarily (and keep it at stock speed for now too). You can guess the route I want to take.

Isn't the stock Intel TIM some kind of parafin pad or something? Like I don't want it to melt and booger up the surface of the cpu heat spreader, right? Thus, the question is, can I peel the stock TIM pad off of the Intel cooler, clean it off, and use a dab of the Shin-Etsu X23 that I have? If so, what would remove the traces of the parafin from the bottom of the stock cooler so it won't gum up the processor's heat spreader? Or is the stock TIM pad or whatever provided separately from the cooler?

Thanks guys.

BTW, what is on the way from Newegg and a few other sources is:
E6600, Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3, Lian-Li PC-A10 case (silver), Seagate Barracuda ES 320 SATA3 HD, PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610, ATI FireGL 3300 (Since I do graphics, and no gaming, I thought I was a good, economical choice - hope I'm right), and a few extras. The 2Gigs of Kingston DDR2 667 PC 5300 Value RAM is already here. After I get the Swiftech kit on it, I plan to run it at a raw clock of 333, which should give FSB 1333, and CPU clock of 2.997 GHz. Will run at stock with the Intel HSF.

The stock Intel TIM is preappled to the heatsink. Carefully scrape it off(fingernail will work, but be careful not to scratch heatsink base)then remove any traces with Isopropyl Alcohol. You can get that almost anywhere..it's cheap(i got some from a dollar store). Try to get close to 100%, but the weaker stuff will work too(i have 100% and 70%).You can then apply your Shin Etsu, or AS thermal-paste. GL

 

[N7SC]

Thanks, I'll be careful with the bottom of the heatsink. One of my favorite things to use for scraping soft stuff off of soft surfaces when I work on my Mazda RX-7 is a piece of paper towel or toilet paper tube. Is stiff enough to act like a good scraper if held and worked right, but way too soft to hurt any kind of metal. Takes patience though.

 

[Mugz]

Patience and dedication is often all that makes the difference between an embarrasment and a true wonder.

Why not just use the Intel TIM until the cooler arrives, and use the isopropyl alcohol to take the muck off the heatspreader? That's what I did...