Just enough paste for a VERY thin layer, yes.
I don't THINK you have to reinstall with a new CPU, but I've never switched CPU alone. If you switch the motherboard you often have to reinstall to stop weird crashes and errors. With just the CPU, I THINK you'll be ok.
It's a shame about NWN2 because it's not actually a particularly impressive game technically. It's fun ( albeit spectacularly repetitive ) and it's big, but it doesn't do anything technically which warrants the high specs. In fact, graphically it rarely looks much better than NWN1. Just in the in-engine cut scenes really. In order to stop the camera going doolally, you have to zoom out quite a bit and at that distance it doesn't look so special.
I don't THINK you have to reinstall with a new CPU, but I've never switched CPU alone. If you switch the motherboard you often have to reinstall to stop weird crashes and errors. With just the CPU, I THINK you'll be ok.
It's a shame about NWN2 because it's not actually a particularly impressive game technically. It's fun ( albeit spectacularly repetitive ) and it's big, but it doesn't do anything technically which warrants the high specs. In fact, graphically it rarely looks much better than NWN1. Just in the in-engine cut scenes really. In order to stop the camera going doolally, you have to zoom out quite a bit and at that distance it doesn't look so special.