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I swore this would never happen to me. I laughed of those to whom it did. That'll teach me. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/pcmasterrace

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They should put a warning on that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

You'd think, right? 😶

[–] victorz 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Am I understanding correctly that you put the paste on top of the plastic that's covering the CPU? 😁 Pretty funny, heh

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do cpu's come with a cover sticker, now? They never used to.

Anyhow, I believe by the looks of it that OP left the protective sticker on their cooler side, and not their cpu side.

[–] victorz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is some barely-passive passive-aggressive nit-picking. 😛

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well I though you wanted to understand correctly? Lol

[–] Buddahriffic 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hate it when people take discussion as aggression.

[–] victorz -3 points 10 months ago

What was being discussed? Please, I love discussing.

[–] victorz -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I understood it fine. I just said:

the plastic that's covering the CPU,

rather than,

the ~~plastic~~ protective sticker on their ~~CPU~~ cooler side, and not their cpu side

Yours is marginally more correct, but mine is pragmatically the same thing. Come on, now. :⁠-⁠P

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey, man. You were the one that asked for clarification. You're starting to complain.

[–] victorz 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Be a little pragmatic for god's sake. What I said was basically the same thing. They left a plastic cover on their CPU and they put the paste on that. Dead simple. You could've just said yes, to an already rhetorical question by the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Lol. Dude; just stop. You're an odd duck.

[–] Omgarm 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks like the paste spread pretty nicely though, so at least that went okay.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Sigh - yes, i was actually pretty happy with my spread (9-dots plus spreading if anyone wonders)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At least you noticed it right away and not after using the CPU for years with horrible performance.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah... Put everything back together, turned it on, opened open hardware monitor - saw 75° of idle cpu temp, sighed, turned it off, opened it back up.

After fixing and reinstalling properly (thermalright phantom 120 evo if anyone wants to know) the cpu (ryzen 7) dropped to 46°, much more what's expected of n idle ryzen 7

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I've use the phantom spirit 120se on two builds now. They are CRAZY for the price. Also, I did the same thing with the first one.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure I did this on my Thermalright cooler the first time, too. Maybe they need to make it more obvious for people like me.

[–] Subverb 1 points 10 months ago

Well that's not "red", it's "rust". How could you be expected to spot that?