Your upgrade path is exactly the same as mine except I'm down 100mhz with both the old and new
Are your reapplying the thermal paste because your temps are poor?
I usually get a max of 88 C but my ambients are > 30 C so I can't complain I guess.
i'm gonna redo the thermal because i have a feeling that the manufacture prob put a glob TP on it. i'm usually getting 45-51 C on 97% idle... that's a bit high to what everyone else was getting on the forum who did the TP replacement.
if ur getting 30C then i think that's great and should leave it alone
did u do any upgrades so far?
i replaced the 500 GB 7200rpm with an old intel G2 SSD and upgrade my 4 GB to 8 GB with 1600Mhz kingston ram. EXCELLENT so far.