Thermal Paste?

[SaderBiscut]

Recently when I was taking apart my T23 (interchanging motherboards), I removed the heat sink for my CPU. When I turned my computer back on, it would randomly reset if I ran too much at once.

It then occurred to me, there might be a problem with the thermal paste as it was using the same thermal paste (more like a thermal stamp) it has shipped with and I had removed this heat sink multiple times.

After inspecting it I discovered I had not tightened the heat sink very well, and the problem (for the most part) went away, but the point still stands.

So thermal paste has been ordered, obviously I won't need all of it, but anything I should know?

[cmarti]

but anything I should know?

It would be good if you read this:

How To Correctly Apply Thermal Grease

[ronbo613]

A little bit goes a long way, but you should definitely use it. Arctic Silver gets my vote, I use it on every computer I build.