Well..
I found the Arctic Silver to slather on the cpu, tossed the motherboard with the slathered and heatsinked cpu into the box, hooked up a bunch of wire things, power connectors and such.
And...
Now it’s time to see if there is any loose smoke...
I had some of that last night. Problem was, it was real smoke, and not the magic kind. Magic smoke smells different than other smoke.
It probably smells like burning money. I don't know what burning money smells like, so I can't say for sure.