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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by flyinghamster on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:31PM (#16711723)
Heh. I've built a bunch of systems over the years (including updating and moving motherboards around), and I'm always nervous when I power it up the first time.

Especially my latest, when I updated my main rig to a Ryzen 7/32 GB ECC/250 GB NVMe setup. About $1000 worth of new hardware, and the POST delay nearly gave me a heart attack. I shouldn't have worried, though, it worked on the first boot. wipes sweat from brow

CPU cooler installation always seems to be the worst part of it, and there just doesn't seem to be a way around that, since lots of force is needed to squash the cooler down and insure good contact. Still, I like the screw-down setup on the Ryzen far better than the older spring-clip designs, or the spring-loaded pegs on Intel coolers.

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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by Terribledactyl on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:41PM (#16711835)
I just put a threadripper build together and was surprised with an extremely difficult and finicky foxconn socket.

Takes a while for my monitor to wake up and was sure I had killed it on first boot with the stream of cryptic messages from the motherboard, but it was fine.

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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by nasredin on Thursday March 29, 2018 @08:54PM (#16712715)
Going on a tangent.

The best way to apply thermal paste AKA TIM:

the thinnest possible layer ALL over the processor's surface.

The pea method IMNSHO is stupid!

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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by Deestan on Friday March 30, 2018 @05:06AM (#16714738)
The pea method eliminates bubbles. A thin layer does not.
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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by watersb on Friday March 30, 2018 @06:56AM (#16715118)
"Tinting" the cleaned surface of the CPU with thermal compund, mostly removed with a credit card or thin plastic scraper... and then applying the pea...

Could it be that there is some merit to the "thin layer all over" message? But yes, easy to mis-communicate. I had not considered the problem of bubbles.

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