Q6600 + Thermalright Ultra 120 extreme

[Spawn-Inc]

chaning thermal paste on any part of the pc will not void the warranty. after all adding an after market cooler (which is fine) you would have to change out the paste anyway.

[Luke122]

If he has to pull the heatsink off the GPU to replace that thermal paste, I believe that would void the warranty.. would it not?

[nevermind1534]

Is even a way to tell that the cooler has ever been removed?

[Spawn-Inc]

well at least with Evga stuff you can change out the thermal paste. i was worried about it with my motherboard and i emailed them and said that yes you can change it. as well as go to third party cooling with the cards and motherboards. there would be a smaller market for after market cooling if you weren't allowed to change it.

Is even a way to tell that the cooler has ever been removed?

the only thing they would see is that the thermal paste was changed if they even looked.

[nevermind1534]

You could always find similar paste, or if nothing else, get another one, and scrape it off of that. I don't know how muck difference it would make, though.

[Chewy_Solo]

i am not sure, i suppose changing thermal paste is an option. I may do so tommorow. Is applying it to a GPU basicly the same technique as a CPU?

And back to the CPU, is that temp acceptable to overclock?

[nevermind1534]

You would apply the thermal past the same way that you would apply it to any exposed die CPU, such as an athlon xp, or an old pentium III.

[Spawn-Inc]

And back to the CPU, is that temp acceptable to overclock?

what was the final cpu load temps you got again? (if you have it use real temp with P95 running on all 4 cores. )

[Chewy_Solo]

well, from tests 1-3 i maxed at 55C on my first core and 49C on my last core.

[nevermind1534]

If the highest that you're going is 55°, then I think you're probably ok to overclock. Does your CPU cooler have a 4-pin plug for the fan?