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My Ryzen 1700 has visible circles in the corners. What are they?

MagicPeter
By MagicPeter
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So I cleaned off the thermal paste that comes with the CPU cooler with Isopropyl alcohol and before I put new paste on it, I noticed circles on three corners of my CPU. They're perfectly round. Almost like screw holes. I tried taking a picture but it wont show on camera. What are those?

Picture for reference: WrfpUw2.jpg

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Ummm... I can't see anything, do you mean the obviously edited-in black circles?

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CPU: Ryzen 7 4800H | GPU: RTX 2060 | RAM: 16GB DDR4 3200MHz C16

 

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40 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

Ummm... I can't see anything, do you mean the obviously edited-in black circles?

Yes. I drew them in as a reference photo since the real ones don't show on camera. The CPU looks really clean on camera for some reason.

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Just now, MagicPeter said:

Yes. I drew them in as a reference photo since the real ones don't show on camera. The CPU looks really clean on camera for some reason.

Ok, it may just be a mark from the heatsink or water block, so I doubt it will be a problem.

Computer engineering grad student, machine learning researcher, and hobbyist embedded systems developer

 

Daily Driver:

CPU: Ryzen 7 4800H | GPU: RTX 2060 | RAM: 16GB DDR4 3200MHz C16

 

Gaming PC:

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X | GPU: EVGA RTX 2080Ti | RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200MHz C16

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Does it look like the spot in the bottom left corner?

cpu1.jpg

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CPU: Ryzen 7 4800H | GPU: RTX 2060 | RAM: 16GB DDR4 3200MHz C16

 

Gaming PC:

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X | GPU: EVGA RTX 2080Ti | RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200MHz C16

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29 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

Does it look like the spot in the bottom left corner?

cpu1.jpg

That is what he means, all ryzen CPUs have that

 

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I see Gigabyte 4+3 and 1700

Seems like sorta fire hazard

 

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probably the machine soldering uses suction cups to place the heatsink

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