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Yo 

 

#thatfeeling

 

When you just thought that taking off the fan and swapping paste was a day job and eeeverything should just work out you know.

 

Nope. I had smashed standard ryzen 7 cooler with default paste on top of the cpu. Not the most horrible idea really. Didnt have cleaning alcohol at the time.

 

But seriously. The paste had covered the whole cpu. And when i took it out my fat dumb fingers managed to transfer some of it to the pin side.....

 

Omg. So there i sat for at least half and hour with camera zoom on mobile, sewing needle, ear cleanser and "rødsprit" (dont know the translation, red alcohol? No idea). And tried to clean the tiny part of the pin side that had gotten the transferred paste. 

 

It was like climbing a 90 degree with no security. 

 

But in the end i just thought. Ok, its no paste on the pin it self. Just on the base. And my educated guess was that it was not silver paste. So i carefully reseated the cpu, added back the fan and started the system...

 

It booted....

 

But to hell with fabric paste! Never more !!

 

 

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Btw i did not use the inappropriate alcohol on the pin side ....

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Did you have some sort of question or is this just a misplaced facebook status update?

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3 minutes ago, emosun said:

Did you have some sort of question or is this just a misplaced facebook status update?

It's actually an implicit question. But if you dont like it or mods feel it's to facebooky i couldnt care less.

 

The point is i left some paste on the base on one area of the pin side. And i dont know how this can affect if at all. 

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what do you mean by 'base'? is it the top of the CPU socket on the mobo?

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34 minutes ago, Jarl said:

Yo 

 

#thatfeeling

 

When you just thought that taking off the fan and swapping paste was a day job and eeeverything should just work out you know.

 

Nope. I had smashed standard ryzen 7 cooler with default paste on top of the cpu. Not the most horrible idea really. Didnt have cleaning alcohol at the time.

 

But seriously. The paste had covered the whole cpu. And when i took it out my fat dumb fingers managed to transfer some of it to the pin side.....

 

Omg. So there i sat for at least half and hour with camera zoom on mobile, sewing needle, ear cleanser and "rødsprit" (dont know the translation, red alcohol? No idea). And tried to clean the tiny part of the pin side that had gotten the transferred paste. 

 

It was like climbing a 90 degree with no security. 

 

But in the end i just thought. Ok, its no paste on the pin it self. Just on the base. And my educated guess was that it was not silver paste. So i carefully reseated the cpu, added back the fan and started the system...

 

It booted....

 

But to hell with fabric paste! Never more !!

 

 

If you got thermal paste on the pins just using rubbing alchohal and gently wipe it off, what would potentially damage the pin side would be liquid metal you’ll be alright OP

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Something like this I imagine...

 

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1 minute ago, RadiatingLight said:

Something like this I imagine...

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Epic. Exactly. Haha. Anyway. No harm done. I guess the paste is not conductive and it was only paste around the legs of two or three pins on the Edge

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Just now, Jarl said:

Like this ....

*snep*

Yeah, that's not too bad at all, and I wouldn't expect any problems, since it's not liquid metal or anything, so it's not conductive in a way that would short the two pins.

Still, if possible, I'd make sure the thermal paste doesn't connect any 2 pins -- just use a thin piece of something to make a divide in the paste between pins if you want to be extra safe.

but if it boots at the moment, then I'd just leave it.

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Delidded Core i7 4770K - GTX 1070 ROG Strix - 16GB DDR3 - Lots of RGB lights I never change

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46 minutes ago, emosun said:

Did you have some sort of question or is this just a misplaced facebook status update?

 

51 minutes ago, Jarl said:

.... dont know the translation, red alcohol?

xD

If you're interested in a product please download and read the manual first.

Don't forget to tag or quote in your reply if you want me to know you've answered or have another question.

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12 minutes ago, keskparane said:

 

 

xD

As our famous racing car driver solberg famously stated: it isnt only only;)

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