Nagy has misplaced his thermal paste but it would appear that it is not necessary. Looks like the mobo has a clip type arrangement to hold the CPU in, first time I've seen such a thing but I haven't seen a new mobo in a decade.
Anyway, before I could be cheerful about it, I tried to put the RAM from the current mobo into the new mobo...
It would seem that my current RAM is DDR2...
So, back to square one until next payday...next month.