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Quote: Originally Posted by wastedteenyears im installing my infinty onto a 4300 on an MSI p6n board.. this is probally a stupid question but one time i messed this up and ruined a new CPU. and i havent built a computer in a few years and i dont know if things changed. what i did one time was not put the feet on a i think it was a slk-800 and i crushed the CPU. so what im wondering is do i need any feet or shims for the heatsink so that i dont crush the CPU? also i know the cpu is dual core.. but it looks like it just has one large core.. do i put thermal grease across the whole thing? please help.

What ever comes with the HS is what you need. In this case, with a stock cooler, you shouldn't need anything.

The two cores are beneath what you see, that is called a heat spreader. So yes, you would put thermal compound across the whole thing, for best results.

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