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Is it really necessary to buy the Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Paste? I'm ordering a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro, won't that come with thermal paste already applied, and won't my CPU have thermal paste on it too? I don't intend to overclock my CPU, but I'm buying a Freezer 7 Pro. Is it worth the 6 bucks?

I bought an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro for my e6750 and plan to push a slight overclock. Question is... should I bother cleaning off the goop on the heatsink base and reapply some 4 year old Arctic Silver 3 or just leave it as is??     

Gigabyte has recently announced their findings in a comprehensive thermal comparison of the ASUS P5K P35-based motherboard to their own P35-DS3R 1.0 and P35-DQ6 motherboards.  Take a look, because these results are very surprising if not dramatic.  Click on the link to open the PDF document (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required): GIGABYTE ...