When assembling a computer, including thermal paste, also known as heat paste, is essential to prevent the processor from overheating. This substance, typically a viscous, silver-colored material, ...

While at my friend's house last Friday, I noticed one of his CPUs (a 750Mhz Duron) had a lot of excess paste around the core. I tried to use a wooden toothpick to scrap it off, but it just smeared ...

Hopefully a thermal paste related question qualifies as on-topic... I had to pop out my P4 + stock heatsink/fan the other day (dead mobo, methinks) and after separating the CPU from the sink it looks ...