Purchased a Scythe Infinity for my Q6600 because the standard cooler has these plastic pins which have to be pressed inside the mobo and I not really like the way it's mounted, looks abit weak.

So I found this website, but he talks about "The liquid metal TIM", but its not clear to me? What kind of stuff is TIM? Do I need to apply the cooler pasta afterwards, or will using TIM be enough? Could TIM cause damage the CPU and does it needs to be cleaned/re-applied after some months?

I guess TIM stands for "Thermal interface material"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_interface_material

It's sth like this: http://www.alternate.de/html/product/details.html?articleId=239929

Ok for a moment I thought TIM was a special product, when I look on google before posting someone talked about it being some kind of mercury like material. Now I understand it's just the pasta that one must smear on the cpu. And yes i'm going to OC the cpu a little bit, but only to 3Ghz ^^