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>Brand new PC
>Took the heatsink off after applying it for the first time to re-adjust things.
>Thermal paste is now fucked, idle temp is 15C higher
>Take heatsink off again and apply some 2 year old "cooler master thermal compound"
>Idle temp still 10C higher than it was with the factory-applied stuff
wat do
pic related, the cooler came with pre-applied thermal paste that seemed to work extremely well; quickly returning to an idle temp of 30C after running benchmarks on a i7 7700K @ 4.8GHz
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Get new paste
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did you completely clean off the old paste?
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>>60230324
Get new, good thermal paste. Noctua nt-h1 is my goto- not the absolute best, but affordable and almost as good. Scrape off the old shit, clean the CPU and heatsink. Clean it good.
Put thermal paste on CPU. (pea method is best imo) put cooler on cpu. Done.
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>>60230324
lap
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>>60230324
First mistake was getting a AIO cooler
2nd mistake was using old and expired paste
Use rubbing alcohol to clean both CPU and Cooler and apply some new paste
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reminder to put one big drop of thermal paste in the middle and not to pre-spread it.
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>>60230730
> expired paste
That's not how thermal paste works. It may harden when exposed to air but if it's soft enough to apply and spread when squished, not crumble, it's fine.
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>>60230324
>7700k
Your problem isnt related to paste my dude
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>>60230783
Not big, pea-sized.
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>>60231368
this, you will need to delid anon.
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How has nobody posted the msi webm yet?
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>>60230703
>Scrape
I use rubbing alcohol and qtips to remove the old stuff
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>>60230324
Dude, just clean it off with 90% alcohol and reapply a higher quality paste.
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>>60232482
>>>60231368
>this, you will need to delid anon.
Also intel are saying not to overclock 7700k.
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