thermal pad

[blaze20]

Ok guys ordering my fx 55 soon is thermal pad good enough or am i gonna have to u thermal paste i dont plan on overclocking or anything ive heard so many diffrent answers from diffrent people just want a solid answer thanks

 

[BW86]

if your not going to overclock than the thermal pad will be fine.

 

[blaze20]

I play alot of games would that affect it any ?

 

[LTC8K6]

No, it will be fine even for some light overclocking. What you have to remember is that the pad is a one use item, really. If you remove the heatsink later on, you really need to replace the pad with some thermal compound like arctic silver.

 

[MDE]

The pad is more than adequate. AMD uses Shin Etsu pads on the stock Athlon 64 heatsinks.

 

[AristoV300]

Originally posted by: LTC8K6
No, it will be fine even for some light overclocking. What you have to remember is that the pad is a one use item, really. If you remove the heatsink later on, you really need to replace the pad with some thermal compound like arctic silver.

Perfectly said :thumbsup: