-> be careful, there... some CPUs are designed to be seated with their heatsinks
-> without any heatsink compound... adding compound can (and has) caused problems
-> by insulating the chip too much from the heatsink... not knowing what you've
-> got, its hard to say more...

 Which one would that be. I never heard of Heat Sink Compound Lowering
the Heat Transfer Rate between a device and the Radiating component
used..
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