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Thermal Paste

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Processor AMD Phenom II 965
Motherboard MSI DKA790GX
Cooling Zalman 9500LED
Memory 2x 2GB G-skill PC8500
Video Card(s) Asus built AMD/ATI HD4850
Storage 500GB Wesern Digital green
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btw, just to trow in my 2 cents in the issue, i would recommend artic ceramic for GPU´s

latly alot of GPU´s, especialy ATI GPU´s have been coming with alot of on chip resistors and solder points, and since artic alimuna and artic silver might conduct under some circumstances, aswell as not knowing exactly how it spreads when you put the heatsink on or when you start warming it up, i wouldnt recommend any metal based pastes on GPU´s.
 

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Processor Athlon 64 Venice 3200+ 2.0 GHz, max 2.6 GHz with Zalman CNPS7000B-AlCu
Motherboard EpoX 9NPA+Ultra nForce4 Ultra with Zalman ZM-NB47J
Cooling All Zalman heatsinks (CNPS7000B-AlCu, ZM-NB47J, VF700-Cu)
Memory 1 GB (2x512 MB) DDR400 Corsair XMS C2 series, max 233 MHz @ 2-3-2-9 1T
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Case Lian Li PC-60B Plus
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Power Supply Enermax Noisetaker EG495AX-VE, 485 watts, active PFC
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Israar said:
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[*]Compatibility across multiple platforms (socket 478/754/939/940)

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There are actually many heatsinks that have broader compatibility than just one socket type. This way they can market it for a broader range of CPUs, which saves them time and money.
 
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