as it keeps a good grip on your CPU and lessens the chance of you wiping thermal paste onto the pins or contact plates of your CPUs, while also preventing you from getting thermal paste all over ...

CPU brackets use a combination of pressure and some sort of thermal media or paste to fill in any gaps between the CPU case and the heat sink. Intel’s LGA1700 bracket is an example, but there ...

In this case, it may be time to reseat the processor, replace the thermal paste, and reinstall the cooler. Thermal paste is used as a conductive layer between the socket and the cooler, which ...