Cooler master gets tired of telling parents about thermal compound, changes tube design

[bcredeur97]

2 hours ago, Waffles13 said:

I'd say it's much more likely a ploy to say to new PC builders "look, our thermal paste comes in a tube that will make it easier* to apply your thermal paste. *not actually any easier".

 

I know when I was building my first PC, the most stressful part was applying paste because it's pretty much the only aspect that isn't "plug thing into slot". If CM is the only paste on the market with a Unique Patented Easy Applicator Design™, then they are probably hoping to appeal to that market. It's just a ploy to stand out among the dozens of identical tubes of paste on the market. 

The most stressful part for me was putting the expensive CPU that I couldn't afford to simply replace into the socket lol. I knew once it was there, there was very little you could do to mess it up...

[JupiteL]

I think parents should know if their kids are into PC building they'd have no money left for drugs.

[Kisai]

14 hours ago, Founders said:

Exactly, as long as the IHS is adequately covered you're good.

 

 

 

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That image is basically negligible.

 

 

 

I watched that gif a few times and was like "please tell me nobody took that seriously"

 

 

[CarlBar]

24 minutes ago, Kisai said:

"please tell me nobody took that seriously"

 

You know someone did....

[sof006]

Its a sad day when a parent doesn't believe their child isn't taking drugs and immediately goes to bashing a company for selling "drugs".

[NumLock21]

How about for the parent to have an interest in what their kids are doing, rather than jumping to conclusion their kids are actually doing drugs. Too bad kids these days lack communication skills, because they can easily tell their parent thermal paste are toxic. If they were to inject it like a drug, they won’t be standing in front of their parents.

[Unixsystem]

22 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

The most stressful part for me was putting the expensive CPU that I couldn't afford to simply replace into the socket lol. I knew once it was there, there was very little you could do to mess it up...

At this point, I find that the most stressful just because I know how easily you can bend a pin if you aren't careful. No matter how experienced you are, you can always slip up and drop it straight into the socket. 

 

When I was first starting out, though, pins were a lot thicker and harder to bend, and I knew next to nothing about thermal paste other than that the goo needed to go on the CPU bit. And any guide you looked at online would give you a dogmatic view of the right way to apply paste, lest you ruin everything. When in reality no one actually knew and it never actually really mattered. 

 

Spoiler

Granted, back when most/all pastes were conductive you needed to be a bit more careful, but for a CPU you always needed to be real sloppy to really need to worry about it squeezing out into something. It was only for GPUs where that was a real concern. 

 

[kirashi]

On 1/17/2020 at 2:35 AM, Samfisher said:

It's flat headed, hardly the right shape or size to be injecting drugs into arms.

Challenge Accepted. 

 

4 hours ago, sof006 said:

Its a sad day when a parent doesn't believe their child isn't taking drugs and immediately goes to bashing a company for selling "drugs".

2 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

How about for the parent to have an interest in what their kids are doing, rather than jumping to conclusion their kids are actually doing drugs.

I really don't want to support the following statement, because I'd like to believe that society is better than this but... Society is becoming more stupiderestest by da day dat wii dun't no ow we gonn liv no mor.