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what happens if i dont use thermal paste?

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i have a h100i v2 cpu cooler and no thermal paste, what will happen if i turn on my pc without thermal paste? will my cpu just cook?

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1 minute ago, Thread212 said:

No it will melt..
kidding..
the cpu will trigger the overheating protection and shut down the pc.

oh...... k

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1 hour ago, zMeul said:

have you cooked eggs on a CPU IHS before? because that's how you cook eggs xD

Have you cooked pasta on your CPU yet?

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DO you mean a NEW unit that would already have paste applied to the cooler?  They all ship like that, so if it's NEW, the cooler has a square of paste already applied.  Just stick it on and you're fine.

If it's a USED unit and that one time use paste is gone and done... Yeah, don't do that.

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Its heat transfer will be significantly less than optimal, and the thermal protection will probably kick in prematurely.  But it should still boot and everything, and not destroy itself.  The whole point of thermal paste isn't to provide broad heat conduction, but is rather just to fill in the discontinuities between the two surfaces, ie: the CPU and the heatsink. 

 

 

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20 minutes ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

i have a h100i v2 cpu cooler and no thermal paste, what will happen if i turn on my pc without thermal paste? will my cpu just cook?

If your CPU doesn't have any overheat protection, then it might cook.

Or it'll just run very hot and slow.

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10 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

DO you mean a NEW unit that would already have paste applied to the cooler?  They all ship like that, so if it's NEW, the cooler has a square of paste already applied.  Just stick it on and you're fine.

If it's a USED unit and that one time use paste is gone and done... Yeah, don't do that.

yeah ive used it, it doesnt have any paste on it

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1 minute ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

yeah ive used it, it doesnt have any paste on it

the cpu god will kill you if you dont add the paste

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If the CPU overheats it will throttle and undervolt the CPU to produce less heat and if it isn't enough at certain temperature it will shut down. You'd have to get really olds CPUs/MBs to not have overtemperature protection.

Thermal paste fills the gaps between the CPU and cooler to improve heat transfer. If you don't put thermal paste you're just making it less efficient, it might be on safe temps or not but it could be way better with thermal paste.

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Thermal paste (either pre-applied or aftermarket) is necessary to bridge the minute gaps between the lid of the CPU and the base of the heat sink. Without it, you have far less contact between the two surfaces, which will result in a loss of performance of the cooler. This could in turn result in anything from a moderately higher CPU temp, right up to CPU throttling (due to overheating) or the thermal trip being triggered (CPU shutdown).

 

TL;DR You're unlikely to damage anything, but there's no reason not to use thermal paste.

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15 minutes ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

yeah ive used it, it doesnt have any paste on it

Then for gods sake don't do that.  Just buy new thermal paste.

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14 minutes ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

yeah ive used it, it doesnt have any paste on it

You can buy tubes of it for like a $1, or use mayonnaise, not recommended though.

 

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1 hour ago, bob51zhang said:

Have you cooked pasta on your CPU yet?

toothpaste counts?^_^

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23 minutes ago, zMeul said:

toothpaste counts?^_^

I think he really meant pasta. Not paste...

 

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