This is mostly just a note to self, for the next time I feel like I have to do this, so that I'll know when I did it previously.
The previous time I did this was not quite a year and a half ago, which seems... a bit more recently than it should have been... ¬_¬ All I know is that some stuff beyond just Minecraft Java version was starting to cause my CPU to overheat, so I went ahead and replaced the paste. It did kind of look shitty and worn down or whatever when I pulled the heatsink off of it. We'll see if replacing it helps any, I guess.
The previous time I did this was not quite a year and a half ago, which seems... a bit more recently than it should have been... ¬_¬ All I know is that some stuff beyond just Minecraft Java version was starting to cause my CPU to overheat, so I went ahead and replaced the paste. It did kind of look shitty and worn down or whatever when I pulled the heatsink off of it. We'll see if replacing it helps any, I guess.