Your images don't work. The grey stuff is probably the old thermal material that eventually comes off the heat sink, I've seen lots of crap like that before. You don't really need thermal paste if the heatsink has a special thing but purists will say "scrape off the material and apply proper paste" etc.
Processor covered in gunk
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