Arctic CoolingQuote:
Thermal Compound
We ship our coolers with the ARCTIC MX-1 thermal compound. This compound hardens during the first 200h while the performance improves steadily. With heating up the paste / heatsink the process can be shortened. The performance is even from the beginning good enough to cool your CPU reliable.
tbh, i wouldn't really bother in removing the paste, just get the bugger on and enjoy the near silence of a rather cool running cpu
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