Do you do these things while building a computer?

[Wix]

Stock thermal paste on a stock CPU cooler is perfectly adequate. Manually spreading the paste is also unnecessary.

[Purgent]

50 minutes ago, VinsinityKT said:

University of Cincinnati. So big and public. At least for my area. 

Moving out of Clifton was the best day of my life.

[Godlygamer23]

19 minutes ago, Wix said:

Manually spreading the paste is also unnecessary.

Especially with your hands.

[pinksnowmanshandle]

1 hour ago, S_Napster said:

I eat pasta while building a pc

I bet that would've helped me get the standoffs aligned when I was trying to install the board in the case.

 

Idk I just took the CPU and put it in the slot, put what would probably be considered a smidgen too much of thermal paste and threw the cooler on and then put the ram in. but I kinda failed at the putting the mobo in the case part.

 

I'm going to try again in a bit, I'm running it right now, except out of the case. Once TF2 installs, I'm going to restart because I didn't restart when the driver install prompted me to.

[MimigaKing]

1 hour ago, VinsinityKT said:

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This is one of the most unknown fact about IT and education level that most older businessman have no idea of and makes the life of all new IT an absolute hell to find a job. 

 

There are three main IT education levels. Professional, College and University.

 

Professional - Building computers, installing OS, cleaning viruses along with some basic stuff like HTTP and PHP coding. 

 

College - programming mostly. Java, C++, C#. etc

 

University - Engineering the logic behind motherboards and stuff and/or building and maintaining large-scale infrastructure. 

 

 

 

It is a common mistake that people thing you need a college degree to know how to build computers and repair them because they are not aware this is actually learned on the professional level. Most IT college graduate doesn't even know how to build a computer. 

[lkarej]

3 hours ago, S_Napster said:

I eat pasta while building a pc

fug man that got me

[S_Napster]

6 hours ago, lkarej said:

fug man that got me

yeah, it requires some skill, even Linus didn't do it.

Probably he is afraid to put pasta sauce instead of thermal paste

[jet224presents]

that is odd especial because it is not even required to do and wouldn't make much sense. waste of money really

[Norseman4]

13 hours ago, VinsinityKT said:

First he installed motherboard in the case. Installed the CPU. Then revealed he brought a q tips and cleaning alcohol. He proceeded to clean the CPU with it. Brought out the stock heat sink and started scraping the thermal paste off of it and cleaned that too with alcohol. And put new thermal paste on the CPU and spread it out with his hands. And then finally installed it.

If my CPU cooler doesn't use a backplate, I normally install the MB first, and even then I may.

 

Using a different thermal paste than what comes on the cooler I can easily see, especially if it were a stock cooler. Wiping down the CPU though I'd only suggest if there are oily fingerprints on the lid.

 

Spreading the thermal paste manually, only the very first build that required a CPU cooler did I spread it out myself. Now, no, just a small pea sized blob on the center of the lid.