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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They should put a warning on that.

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

You'd think, right? 😶

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year 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

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well I though you wanted to understand correctly? Lol

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate it when people take discussion as aggression.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

What was being discussed? Please, I love discussing.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year 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

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year 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.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Pechente@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year 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

[–] pacoboyd@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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