Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, but does it matter how you put on the thermal paste? ANy thermal paste. Im just using the word thermal paste. Ive read countless times that missing any area of the CPU will make it bad and all this bad junk. It really got me thinking here at work, all they do is just put a dot in the middle and thats it. ive taken off CPU fans from CPUS that have been running HD 4000 IG games for months, and that CPU is holding up pretty good even if the paste is all weird and ugly and all over the CPU and fan. So does it really matter? This Intel chips i'm talking about.