meh, never heard of it, shoulda gone with AS5, although if you applied that correctly it wouldn't have burnt out your cpu
and where did u get this processor? it's always worth a try to call the place you got it at and ask if you can get a refund (just say it was stable for x months and it burnt out all of a sudden, dont mention the thermal paste stuff and hope they won't notice/don't know )
Close enough. Get a new CPU, and clean the heatsink off VERY well, and put a extremly small dot of the paste on the die it self and set the heatsink right ontop of it.
it's always worth a try to call the place you got it at and ask if you can get a refund (just say it was stable for x months and it burnt out all of a sudden, dont mention the thermal paste stuff and hope they won't notice/don't know )