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Why is thermal paste so hard to find at midnight?
2016-05-13 04:11:10 Post No. 54521641
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Why is thermal paste so hard to find at midnight?
Anonymous
2016-05-13 04:11:10
Post No. 54521641
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So For the longest time my computer has been beeping at me right? Now maybe I am old but in my day if things were overheating the bios speaker would beep or buzz if there was an issue, so it didn't even occur to me that there could be a heat issue.
Anyways, so I am pulling my hair out for the last week trying to figure out what's causing it, sure it must be a software problem.
Finally my computer shuts itself off, and immediately I know I've been barking up the wrong trees.
Turns out last time I cleaned the dust out of the cooling system I put one of the fans on backward so both were blowing into the heat-sink between them (which cooled the liquid running to the processor).
Anyways, this picture here is the result. The glove is because I burnt my fingers trying to take the first picture.
The cooling system is toast, I opened it up and all the glue had melted and pooled at the bottom, maybe it can be salvaged but who knows. Anyways, I went and grabbed the old stock heatsink and fan that came with the i7 5 years ago now. But with no thermal paste on hand the computer wouldn't last 10 minutes being idle before shutting down.
It's 10:30pm so I run 7km to one walmart, no luck, a further 8km to another, no luck. Get home depressed, just wanting to keep playing Stellaris.
So how am I posting this?
Motherfucking toothpaste and handcream, mixed up and slathered on. Right now I'm running Stellaris in the background at 100% load being transferred across cores and cruising with ~50c.
Motherfucking toothpaste. Is there anything it can't do? I used it a few months ago to salvage an old copy of Dragon's Dogma for Xbox that was too scratched to run.
Motherfucking toothpaste man. What can't it do?
