<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\nThermal paste is a glue-like material that you apply underneath heat sinks during mounting. Thermal paste improves the rate of heat transfer between a CPU and a heat sink and the lack of it can lead to overheating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, in order to check whether there's enough thermal paste, you'll need to know how to remove the heat sink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overheating is a common problem when you\u2019re overclocking or performing other processor-intensive tasks. That\u2019s why you should get into the habit of tracking the CPU\u2019s temperature. Both Core Temp and HWMonitor are fine tools and you should be taking advantage of their capabilities. I myself prefer Core Temp because of it pushes out alerts when the CPU is overheating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to tracking temperature, you should also make an effort to reduce the risk of overheating. There are several preventive measures you can take like cleaning up dust, moving the computer to a cooler spot, upgrading the cooling system and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It's always good practice to monitor your CPU's temperature when you're overclocking it. This will ensure that it doesn't overheat to the extent it ends up suffering permanent damage. In addition, people with a powerful laptop should be concerned about CPU temperature as well. Since they don't have nearly the same space as desktops, airflow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpuforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpuforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpuforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpuforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpuforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cpuforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"https:\/\/cpuforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/4363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpuforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpuforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpuforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpuforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}