Thermal paste appliance question

[mrgoodrocker]

So I'm upgrading to water cooling in my system, and the cooler I'm getting (Corsair h60) comes with paste pre applied, as normal, but I have my own thermal paste that works amazing. Do I clean off the pre applied paste and use mine or just apply my paste to a clean cpu and then just install it with the paste still on on top of mine?

 

[WildCard999]

Clean off the paste from the H60 then just use yours on the CPU.

 

[junkeymonkey]

best to do fresh you don't know how old or hardened that pre-applied is may not seat or ''burn in '' properly

better safe then sorry and your disassembling it to do it anyway if things went wrong ??