About the stock thermal paste.

[mcx]

So I just bought a Intel i5 cpu and I noticed that it had some preapplyed paste. But I don't want to use that so can I simply just scrape it of and then apply my AS5 paste to the cpu?

Btw it looks something like this:
http://www.frostytech.com/articleimages/200706/intelC2Dstock_bot.jpg
(The grey stuff).

 

[jamesworkshop]

So I just bought a Intel i5 cpu and I noticed that it had some preapplyed paste. But I don't want to use that so can I simply just scrape it of and then apply my AS5 paste to the cpu?

Btw it looks something like this:
http://www.frostytech.com/articleimages/200706/intelC2Dstock_bot.jpg
(The grey stuff).

You can yes I never use pre-applied paste I use AS5 myself

 

[mcx]

So I just bought a Intel i5 cpu and I noticed that it had some preapplyed paste. But I don't want to use that so can I simply just scrape it of and then apply my AS5 paste to the cpu?

Btw it looks something like this:
http://www.frostytech.com/articleimages/200706/intelC2Dstock_bot.jpg
(The grey stuff).

You can yes I never use pre-applied paste I use AS5 myself

Ok thanks, so no need to use any cleaning products to remove it at all?

Edit: No need, I found by myself but thanks anyway.