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Yes, it's still working as before I thought so. I didn't even think about that when I took it off or I would have waited until I had the thermal paste before cleaning, lol. Thanks for confirming, I'll apply new stuff when it arrives.

Hey everyone, I'm building a new PC for myself and decided to give the old one to a friend. I opened it up today to clean it, and decided to unmount the CPU fan to get at it from a better angle. After putting it back together and powering up, it crashes after about a minute. Entering the BIOS, I can see the CPU temp very quickly reaches 100°C, when it powers off. The CPU fan is properly seated. I did not clean the old thermal paste on the CPU or CPU fan heat spreader, or reapply thermal paste when detaching it for dusting, could this be the issue? It would start up normally before, but could disturbing the thermal paste have caused this? Would cleaning both and applying new thermal paste potentially fix the issue? I know this question may sound dumb, but I'm just not sure how much of a difference it would make (also, I have thermal paste coming but it won't arrive for 2 days so I'm just seeing if theres anything I could try in the meantime). Thanks

This is my first build in 5 years. I've been going over parts for the past few days and come up with this list, just want to make sure there's nothing I've messed up or should change before purchasing. My main uses for the system are gaming, with a little video editing in After Effects (but this isn't the priority). This is pretty much at my price limit, but I'd be able to spend a little more where necessary (or if some parts were swapped out for cheaper components). PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (£188.58 @ Aria PC) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£27.90 @ Amazon UK) Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard (£113.04 @ Amazon UK) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£79.79 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Sabrent Rocket 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (£59.99 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.98 @ Aria PC) Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB VENTUS XS OC Video Card (£270.43 @ Box Limited) Case: NZXT H500 ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.95 @ AWD-IT) Power Supply: Corsair RMx (2018) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£88.98 @ AWD-IT) Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-AC56 PCIe x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter (£36.59 @ Aria PC) Case Fan: Noctua NF-F12 PWM 54.97 CFM 120 mm Fan (£20.47 @ CCL Computers) Case Fan: Noctua NF-F12 PWM 54.97 CFM 120 mm Fan (£20.47 @ CCL Computers) Total: £1010.16 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-09-06 13:47 BST+0100 Thank you!