• Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    7 months ago

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

    • ColeSlothEnglish
      171·
      7 months ago

      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.

        • ColeSlothEnglish
          81·
          7 months ago

          Well I though you wanted to understand correctly? Lol

          • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            7 months ago

            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

            • ColeSlothEnglish
              41·
              7 months ago

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

              • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                7 months ago

                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.

                • ColeSlothEnglish
                  2·
                  7 months ago

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

  • Omgarm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    7 months ago

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

    • Ulvain@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      10·
      7 months ago

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

  • Pechente@feddit.deEnglish
    18·
    7 months ago

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

    • Ulvain@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      20·
      7 months ago

      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.eeEnglish
        1·
        7 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.

  • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
    5·
    7 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    Well that’s not “red”, it’s “rust”. How could you be expected to spot that?