P4-478 Northwoods + Thermal Paste question.

[sticky52]

I'm sure a good portion of us that ordered the P4 1.6A setups looking to overclock the piss out of them have already put them together. I'm not real big on the whole Cooler installation thing so I was curious as to what everyone's opinion on this is: Those 1.6A retail chip's come with that monstrous heatsink/fan outfit with the 'thermal pad' on the bottom, but does that thing cut it? Is thermal paste recommended or will that hinder the cooling process?

 

[PlatinumGold]

sticky

check out my sig. that p4 rig is oc'd using the black thermal material that came w/ the hs and the retail hs that came w/ the cpu.

i've got as3 and an AVC sunflower on order, will see if that gives me a boost in oc.

but i'm pretty happy where it's at.

 

[sticky52]

Badass enough but you should really put the Intel on top. Gracias.