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.
Looks like the paste spread pretty nicely though, so at least that went okay.
Sigh - yes, i was actually pretty happy with my spread (9-dots plus spreading if anyone wonders)
At least you noticed it right away and not after using the CPU for years with horrible performance.
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
Am I understanding correctly that you put the paste on top of the plastic that’s covering the CPU? 😁 Pretty funny, heh
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.
This is some barely-passive passive-aggressive nit-picking. 😛
Well I though you wanted to understand correctly? Lol
I hate it when people take discussion as aggression.
What was being discussed? Please, I love discussing.
I understood it fine. I just said:
the plastic that’s covering the CPU,
rather than,
the
plasticprotective sticker on theirCPUcooler side, and not their cpu sideYours is marginally more correct, but mine is pragmatically the same thing. Come on, now. :-P
Hey, man. You were the one that asked for clarification. You’re starting to complain.
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.
Lol. Dude; just stop. You’re an odd duck.
They should put a warning on that.
You’d think, right? 😶
