Sorry newbie question:
I'm moving my old processor and heatsink from one motherboard to another one. I have a socket A 2100+ athlon and a coolermaster heatsink. The heatsink came with a preapplied phase-change thermal compound. The AMD website says that once this has been used I have to get a new heatsink. Can I instead just clean it off and apply more thermal compound, such as "arctic silver" and reuse the heatsink? Thanks for the help.
I'm moving my old processor and heatsink from one motherboard to another one. I have a socket A 2100+ athlon and a coolermaster heatsink. The heatsink came with a preapplied phase-change thermal compound. The AMD website says that once this has been used I have to get a new heatsink. Can I instead just clean it off and apply more thermal compound, such as "arctic silver" and reuse the heatsink? Thanks for the help.