Help with my cpu questions

[sirecho9k]

Hello! So I fuck up screwing the wraith cooler in my mobo, So i have to undo all the screwing. So i kinda peeked a little at the bottom of the cpu and picked it up slightly to see if I have putted it in the wrong side. So i'm worried that the air bubbles might suddenly pop up in my cpu just because of the that. Don't want anything to happen to this lol

 

Or maybe i am paranoid?

[Whiro]

9 minutes ago, sirecho9k said:

Hello! So I fuck up screwing the wraith cooler in my mobo, So i have to undo all the screwing. So i kinda peeked a little at the bottom of the cpu and picked it up slightly to see if I have putted it in the wrong side. So i'm worried that the air bubbles might suddenly pop up in my cpu just because of the that. Don't want anything to happen to this lol

 

Or maybe i am paranoid?

Well you are slightly paranoid  

You should change thermal paste in theory but you will be good, don’t stress over it too much atm. When you find some spare time just get new tp. Just make sure you screw the cooler properly and don’t look underneath anymore 

[sirecho9k]

Phew, Thanks a lot for the reassurance it's my first time building a pc by myself. Oh, and can you clean a paste using only clothes and no alcohol solution? I removed my pasye without any solutions and turned up clean is this okay? Or should i really put some solution?

sorry if i sound dumb. It's just I'm total newb when building a pc

[Bombastinator]

14 minutes ago, sirecho9k said:

Phew, Thanks a lot for the reassurance it's my first time building a pc by myself. Oh, and can you clean a paste using only clothes and no alcohol solution? I removed my pasye without any solutions and turned up clean is this okay? Or should i really put some solution?

sorry if i sound dumb. It's just I'm total newb when building a pc

 No.  Well maybe I guess.  It would take tons of work.  You need to get ALL the paste off.  Every last tiny bit.  Not even a hint it was ever there.  You can do it with cloth to get it almost gone but it’s diminishing returns.

[sirecho9k]

1 hour ago, Bombastinator said:

 No.  Well maybe I guess.  It would take tons of work.  You need to get ALL the paste off.  Every last tiny bit.  Not even a hint it was ever there.  You can do it with cloth to get it almost gone but it’s diminishing returns.

The difference in my case is that i wiped a fresh paste. I never really tried to boot up using the paste that i booted up. does that makes a difference? I think there are nothing left on the surface

[Bombastinator]

Wait.. is there paste on it now?

[kla3]

16 hours ago, sirecho9k said:

it's my first time building a pc by myself

First of all, good job building your first PC, it can be scary the first time, but the most important thing is to breathe and dont stress, take your time!

Regarding the question you asked, if you are in any doubt about the paste, just start over

 

-Remove cooler

-Clean of ALL the old paste on both cooler and CPU

-Apply new paste, just about the size of a pea (apply it to the CPU)

-Mount cooler and connect fan

 

-Happy gaming!

 

PS: never start the PC without any paste applied

[sirecho9k]

54 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Wait.. is there paste on it now?

Nope. I removed the pea sized paste using a cloth and done my best wiping them. I got kinda scared and decided not to use my other cooler as I need a lot of force to be able to latch on the bracket. I used the stock for the meantime and it has paste on it

[sirecho9k]

1 minute ago, kla3 said:

First of all, good job building your first PC, it can be scary the first time, but the most important thing is to breathe and dont stress, take your time!

Regarding the question you asked, if you are in any doubt about the paste, just start over

 

-Remove cooler

-Clean of ALL the old paste on both cooler and CPU

-Apply new paste, just about the size of a pea (apply it to the CPU)

-Mount cooler and connect fan

 

-Happy gaming!

 

PS: never start the PC without any paste applied

Thanks man! One wrong move and good bye my precious components haha. But I'm kinda stuck with the cooler now i backed out because the cooler i bought required a lot of pressure. So naturally i got scared and decided to got stock

 

Thanks for the response tho. I cleaned it all up

[kla3]

9 hours ago, sirecho9k said:

the cooler i bought required a lot of pressure

Which cooler did you buy? the wraith cooler should be pretty straight forward

[sirecho9k]

1 hour ago, kla3 said:

Which cooler did you buy? the wraith cooler should be pretty straight forward

The Stealth is what I'm using rn. The one I'm talking about is the gammax coolers. S40 specifically for some reason they need a considerable amount of force to latch in the bracket. Being the newb i was, i kinda hesitated to extend a force worried i might break my cpu

[kla3]

11 hours ago, sirecho9k said:

The Stealth is what I'm using rn. The one I'm talking about is the gammax coolers. S40 specifically for some reason they need a considerable amount of force to latch in the bracket. Being the newb i was, i kinda hesitated to extend a force worried i might break my cpu

Aha, I see!
 

I hope the PC turns out the way you want it to, and that the mounting of the cooler goes to planned!

 

Enjoy your selfbuilt rig!