- Jul 10, 2000
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OK, I seem to be having a problem with heat on my AMD 850 Thunderbird. I've got a really good heatsink/fan (Alpha if my memory serves me correctly) and I"m using radio shack themal grease (I don't really care if it's not brand name thermal grease). So that's not a problem, but I never removed the pads on the cpu. I remember this being a big debate back in the day when I get the cpu, so I decided not to remove them, and it's been doing fine since. Now I"m having heat problems. I want the definitive answer: should I remove the pads? THanks