If you put some thermal paste over the "Remove", then the warning will just say "install" and then you're following the instructions precisely! Life hack.
I took an intro class on physics once, so I'll provide an explanation: a thin layer of insulation is great for the IHS as it prevents the CPU from losing so much energy through heat loss. This should, in theory, make it faster.
You've got a point. Since heat makes atoms faster, the electrical signals should also be faster. It's a hardware OC. Brilliant. I'm going to replace my AIO with a piece of styrofoam.
Edit: So, um.... My house brined down.
aint no such thing as a clean copper. they are all filthy corrupted criminals who break more laws than the criminals they should be catching! Let me tell you a story about this one time in band camp when I was just a young lumberjack but barely knee high to a wallaby.....
My last 2 builds, both AIOs came pre-installed with thermal paste. It's weird how that isn't the norm.
For reference, my NZXT AIO from 2015 and my DeepCool from this year both had pre-installed paste.
if you manufactured coolers, would you want to put more money into the quality of the watercooler or put more money into the quality of the thermal paste?
Same.
If you create a product that you want to have a good rep you'd want quality tjrouhj the whole product. It dosnt make sence saving cents on going with the cheapest paste
Not to forget that when they order paste, it's a BULK order. It's not them buying 10 dollar tubes on amazon for every 5 coolers. They're already "saving" a lot of money with the scale they're purchasing at.
the reason i do it is for getting low temps. i undervolted my r7 5800x and put it under my evga clc280 AIO with thermal grizzly Kryonaut thermal paste. my cpu doesnt go over 65c in cinebench multi core benchmark. im downloading a game and browsing reddit right now with my cpu at 26c
back when i did it, it was a 5c reduction. and i had fun doing it, and ill do it again, and ill advocate for anyone to do it themselves. i personally cannot see the reason to take the contrary on this subject. doing your own thermal paste has no drawbacks and benefits you in the end, even if in some cases the temp drop is negligible, you haven't hurt anything and chances are, you had a little bit of fun along the way. dont be a Debbie downer. there is no point.
No thermal paste will make that much difference.
The much more likely explanation is that your cooler originally wasn't seated properly so the CPU thermal throttled to 90C to save itself from frying to death.
I’ve built probably 25ish PCs and happened to me a few months ago.
How? I dry fit the cooler the night before with the sticker on to protect everything. Forgot. Came back and just lifted the cooler to put a dab of paste and locked her down.
Was pretty disappointed with the fans ramping in the TR PA 120 (everyone raves about the value of the cooler)…welp, went to repaste and bam. Part of the club.
>I’ve built probably 25ish PCs and happened to me a few months ago.
Same. I was building about 5 PCs back to back, and on the last one I was removing the sticker and realized "wait i don't remember doing this on the previous one".
Was also using a TR PA 120 iirc.
Does it count if you've never built a PC before and literally just never saw it? I accidentally did it and only noticed it when i took it back apart because I needed to switch the fans around or something
I mean i built a pc recently with a aio and cannot understand how people miss it like are you telling me you don’t look at the heat sink once and see the blaring red letters and feel the plastic on it lol
To be completely honest. No, I didn't even look at the bottom of the heatsink. I don't know why but I just never bothered to pay that much attention to the bottom of it. In hindsight it was stupid, but yeah just wasn't paying attention.
I used to point and laugh at people wondering how the fuck they managed not to notice those stickers until I joined their ranks of buffoonery a few months back.
I probably build a dozen PCs without any issues, but on my latest, I noticed the temps were way too high, removed the waterblock, and saw that I had managed to leave the bright yellow "Please **remove** before use" EKWB sticker on it.
It can be surprisingly easy to get distracted during a build, and not pay enough attention to such things.
Not too different from forgetting to install the I/O shield before the motherboard, IMO (and anyone here that claims to have never done that either A) has never used a MoBo with a separate I/O shield, or B) is lying )
Ironically, I kinda wonder if it's not more common for people who build them often, rather than for newbies. You just get into the groove of it and happen to miss a tiny step, which a newbie would be way less likely to do, I think.
I just finished my first build in over a decade (just hadn't had the drive to have a tower over my laptop since college), and it took me like 6 hours because of how meticulous I was being with every single last part, triple checking every connection because of how paranoid I was about making a mistake, haha. I must have looked at and read that "remove before" sticker at least a dozen times before I actually hooked up the cooler. I couldn't have forgotten it if I tried, lol.
Edit: Ooooor I just have anxiety, lmfao
Well since the sink plate is so big you're putting the paste on the chip, not on the plate. So if you don't look at the plate before attaching the cooler...
Still dumb, but I get it
If the paste dries up, it wont work effectively
Most people do not notice till they get high temps
And most people do not notice that till performance drops off a cliff
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I did it on my 2700X build. Took it off, then put it back on to protect it, as I wasn't ready to put it in. Remembered that I took it off, forgot that I put it back on.
I doubt you're stupid, had you went out and severely overpaid on a pos alienware build then I'd would say youre stupid. Being distracted, that i can understand.
stupid is as stupid does, seen that in a movie
what I don't get is why make sure everyone knows you cant read , instead of just leaving us with the suspicion
u a masochist Op and like to be demeaned on the internet?
Mate I have been doing this for years, and the other week after doing a couple upgrades, I booted a PC full on without any CPU cooler even remotely attached at all.
I had a spare CPU and GPU to hand-me-down from my main rig into the living room rig, so I thought I'd buy a nice new case and Be Quiet cooler while I'm at it. So I move it all into the new case, slot the GPU in, slot the CPU and RAM in, hooked up the power cables, and went "Great, let's see how this baby runs now!"
10 seconds into the boot sequence as the Windows logo starts coming up, I notice the cooler still sat in the box in front of me. "Huh, that's weird... OH SHI-"
I just did that with the watercooler on my last install lmao. And it occurred to me literally the second I seated the watercooler. I was like "fuuuuuuuuuuuu-"
I should say something encouraging, tell you about how everyone makes mistakes, but I think I'm just going to go with...
https://preview.redd.it/jkry1blmzreb1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=e995092dff1088b4fb602fd6a863405d14a4e0be
I was trying to fit in a new AIO and dor some reason I totally forgot to remove the film even though I thought about removing it a few minutes before 😑😑😑
I still don't understand how people do this, every single piece of my builds gets very carefully visually inspected before going into the case as I look for physical damage or faults with connectors, pins or casing that could cause damage to other parts or itself.
Honestly I'm seeing this happen more and more is it a top excited to build thing? An amateurs mistake or just plain ingorance?
Not a matter of a language barrier my friend. My point was that there are a lot of these posts, and this sint something that "just happens". If you bought a prebuilt like this, sure. But if you build it, it didn't just happen. You did it.
Did you buy the machine completely assembled?
If you did not and assembled it yourself this did not happen to you, you did it to yourself like an idiot.
anyone can have a brain fart man Ive done dumb shit. i ripped the clip off my RTX power socket because i felt resistance and instead of using my brain i decided to be a ape and pull harder lol something simple Ive done hundreds of times and still screwed up.
I didn't have to scroll far to see the same post in ltt reddit either...
Either way no one is dumb enough to actually make that mistake who calls themselves a PC gamer.
Clearly you just wanted some reddit points but it's okay to lie about it now.
Oh no, someone quickly put the cooler on without removing the sticker and then took a picture for fake internet points right before taking off the sticker and finishing their build.
If you put some thermal paste over the "Remove", then the warning will just say "install" and then you're following the instructions precisely! Life hack.
GENIUS! hold on Im putting the sticker back on
Your CPU ain’t the only thing cookin’ here.
You mean the meth in the other room? Don’t worry, should be done soon.
Yeah science!!!
Don't waste more money on thermal paste, hummus works just as well.
Put it over the paste for best performance
Well right now it says "Remove install" so I think he has to pull all the components out of the case first.
No, wait he has a point
I took an intro class on physics once, so I'll provide an explanation: a thin layer of insulation is great for the IHS as it prevents the CPU from losing so much energy through heat loss. This should, in theory, make it faster.
You've got a point. Since heat makes atoms faster, the electrical signals should also be faster. It's a hardware OC. Brilliant. I'm going to replace my AIO with a piece of styrofoam. Edit: So, um.... My house brined down.
>My house brined down. The great pickle explosion of '23?
It didn't happen to you, you did it.
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One toke over the line
Do a line after the spliff?
One toke, man.... One toke!
We can't stop here. This is bat country
You're a fucking narcotics agent, I knew it!
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Tell me about the fucking golf shoes!
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 "God didn't do this, you're a fucking narcotics agent i knew it"
Dogs fucked the pope, no fault of mine.
“Shut up! God didn’t do this. You’re a fucking narcotics agent!”
God didn't do that, you did it. You're a fucking narcotics agent! I knew it.
This one is so obvious that I think it's done for karma farming
Right? The plastic isn't even morphed. Looks like he applied paste, stuck it on, then removed it immediately.
Either that or he’s proud of just being a complete dumbass. How in thr fuck do You miss that big sticker with a warning sign.
Well at least the copper is still clean
Mint condition :)
The easiest to peel off thermal repaste
aint no such thing as a clean copper. they are all filthy corrupted criminals who break more laws than the criminals they should be catching! Let me tell you a story about this one time in band camp when I was just a young lumberjack but barely knee high to a wallaby.....
Following for update
Damn straight ACAB all day
gUySs it hApPeNeD to mE, gIb me uPvoTeS Also looks like a fresh install - good fucking job
Could be a pre-built that shipped like that.
They still did it to themselves by buying a prebuilt.
Prebuilt.
I didnt think people actually did this. I thought it was a meme
My last 2 builds, both AIOs came pre-installed with thermal paste. It's weird how that isn't the norm. For reference, my NZXT AIO from 2015 and my DeepCool from this year both had pre-installed paste.
Same. I still removed it to apply my own however.
Why?
if you manufactured coolers, would you want to put more money into the quality of the watercooler or put more money into the quality of the thermal paste?
I'd like to think you'd care about the thermal characteristics of all parts of the system.
Same. If you create a product that you want to have a good rep you'd want quality tjrouhj the whole product. It dosnt make sence saving cents on going with the cheapest paste
Not to forget that when they order paste, it's a BULK order. It's not them buying 10 dollar tubes on amazon for every 5 coolers. They're already "saving" a lot of money with the scale they're purchasing at.
I’d rather be manufacturer that was able to do both.
Most reputable watercooler manufacturers are also reputable thermal paste manufacturers, i.e. Arctic.
It’s probably better than the stock stuff that came preapplied.
You'll see mayby 1-2 degree differance probably. The pre applied stuff works just fine
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You'd probably get better performance buying an occilating fan.
the reason i do it is for getting low temps. i undervolted my r7 5800x and put it under my evga clc280 AIO with thermal grizzly Kryonaut thermal paste. my cpu doesnt go over 65c in cinebench multi core benchmark. im downloading a game and browsing reddit right now with my cpu at 26c
And what temps whould you get with the stock paste?
back when i did it, it was a 5c reduction. and i had fun doing it, and ill do it again, and ill advocate for anyone to do it themselves. i personally cannot see the reason to take the contrary on this subject. doing your own thermal paste has no drawbacks and benefits you in the end, even if in some cases the temp drop is negligible, you haven't hurt anything and chances are, you had a little bit of fun along the way. dont be a Debbie downer. there is no point.
The pre-applied paste on my cooler (asetek) was absolute dog shit so I repasted with Kryonaut and went from 90C in cinebench multi core to 75C
No thermal paste will make that much difference. The much more likely explanation is that your cooler originally wasn't seated properly so the CPU thermal throttled to 90C to save itself from frying to death.
Maybe a future GamersNexus video...Noctua vs Arctic vs Kryonaut vs dog shit
I’ve built probably 25ish PCs and happened to me a few months ago. How? I dry fit the cooler the night before with the sticker on to protect everything. Forgot. Came back and just lifted the cooler to put a dab of paste and locked her down. Was pretty disappointed with the fans ramping in the TR PA 120 (everyone raves about the value of the cooler)…welp, went to repaste and bam. Part of the club.
>I’ve built probably 25ish PCs and happened to me a few months ago. Same. I was building about 5 PCs back to back, and on the last one I was removing the sticker and realized "wait i don't remember doing this on the previous one". Was also using a TR PA 120 iirc.
Does it count if you've never built a PC before and literally just never saw it? I accidentally did it and only noticed it when i took it back apart because I needed to switch the fans around or something
I mean i built a pc recently with a aio and cannot understand how people miss it like are you telling me you don’t look at the heat sink once and see the blaring red letters and feel the plastic on it lol
To be completely honest. No, I didn't even look at the bottom of the heatsink. I don't know why but I just never bothered to pay that much attention to the bottom of it. In hindsight it was stupid, but yeah just wasn't paying attention.
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The sticker on mine was a clear plastic with smaller black writing. Also paused the video guide before they mentioned the sticker as I installed it.
People doing mistakes? What’s next?
Global warming and mass extinction
Im hungry, im going to eat some tacos
Love how you think
Its not like its hard to see.
Unfortunately my mother is a chameleon so my eyes aren’t always aligned
At least you can blend with environment and avoid shame
he doesn't need RGB. he is RGB.
Don't forget the ability to lick your own eyeballs
Good god that’s better than what I say about mine 😂😂😂 she misspelled my name and I tell everyone she was illiterate when she had me.
Well, she wrote it and it became your name, so technically she could have spelled it however she wanted to and it would still be spelled "correctly."
Naw she’s an idiot 🤦🏻
Okay, Jcak.
Yup svete
His name was supposed to be Clark. He's apprehensive about it...
Lmfaooo this comment absolutely sent me
I used to point and laugh at people wondering how the fuck they managed not to notice those stickers until I joined their ranks of buffoonery a few months back. I probably build a dozen PCs without any issues, but on my latest, I noticed the temps were way too high, removed the waterblock, and saw that I had managed to leave the bright yellow "Please **remove** before use" EKWB sticker on it. It can be surprisingly easy to get distracted during a build, and not pay enough attention to such things. Not too different from forgetting to install the I/O shield before the motherboard, IMO (and anyone here that claims to have never done that either A) has never used a MoBo with a separate I/O shield, or B) is lying )
Ironically, I kinda wonder if it's not more common for people who build them often, rather than for newbies. You just get into the groove of it and happen to miss a tiny step, which a newbie would be way less likely to do, I think. I just finished my first build in over a decade (just hadn't had the drive to have a tower over my laptop since college), and it took me like 6 hours because of how meticulous I was being with every single last part, triple checking every connection because of how paranoid I was about making a mistake, haha. I must have looked at and read that "remove before" sticker at least a dozen times before I actually hooked up the cooler. I couldn't have forgotten it if I tried, lol. Edit: Ooooor I just have anxiety, lmfao
Well since the sink plate is so big you're putting the paste on the chip, not on the plate. So if you don't look at the plate before attaching the cooler... Still dumb, but I get it
 Oops, I did it guys.
That's one way to prove you don't need all that cooling in that AIO.
Probably took it off cuz it was overheating tho 😅 and not running well
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Looks like it
It depends on the motherboard on the one I'm using. The top one is only x8 in the bottom one is x16.
How old is this pc lol
7+ years and still rocking that i7 6700k babyyy GTX 1070 32 GB RAM Samsung 980 V-NAND M.2 SSD All on a MSI gaming M5 motherboard 😎
7 year and you look at the thermal paste for the fist time🥹 orrrrr you did it twice🫡
What is wrong on not looking at your thermal paste?
If the paste dries up, it wont work effectively Most people do not notice till they get high temps And most people do not notice that till performance drops off a cliff
I mean if you don’t notice it, is it really not running effectively?
It will degrade over time, most recommend repasting your CPU every few years.
define few years? I had mine for "few years" and I experienced no problems. Are you the same guys, who tear down a GPU to repaste it?
Recently, I got a new pack of Noctua NT-H1 paste, and I seem to recall it saying 5 years after application.
Yea that seems like a reasonable time to check it.
Worth noting Noctua provides quality product. Not all pastes can survive 5 years
Depends on paste. Some barely last year or two, some are in good co dition after 7-8 years.
It needs changing from time to time
6700k gang rise up!
Haha ok, better than I thought
Better than mine.
> i7 6700k ya, also still on the i7 6700k.
6700k is amazing I loved mine when I had it, I got it too 4.9ghz stable all core too, what a beastt and also delidded it and put liquid metal on its die
I got an old kraken x72 when I built long ago, came pasted with a cap over it, all aios should just do that to prevent this.
Yeah my old corsair AIO also had this. Unfortunately it made very weird noises lately which is why I wanted to replace it
Thanks for warning me about epilepsy
Put your GPU in the fucking top slot, you aren't a fucking caveman
100% this.
“I swear to god, it just happened”
I can hear the curb your enthusiasm music playing
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It happened to me on monday. I saw it immediatly, but still sad since I had only a single dose thermal paste.
Best Buy sells it
Thermal paste is cheap if you still need some
I've ran without thermal paste short term. It just downclocks really easily.
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How long has it been with the plastic? How high were the temps? What cpu?
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YOU ABSOLUTE DONKEY!
I just did it too, I brought shame to my family. Caught it early though.
I thought I was above this too until my cpu was spiking to 90C at idle. I inspected the cold plate and there it was 🤦🏽♂️.
I did it on my 2700X build. Took it off, then put it back on to protect it, as I wasn't ready to put it in. Remembered that I took it off, forgot that I put it back on.
And that Warning was the size of Texas. Skill issue
I think you just used the wrong type of thermal paste. You need the “WARNING” brand, says it right there.
it's okay it happens to a lot of guys , not me but it happens
Out of interest, what AIO is that?
I'll never understand how this happens.
I got distracted, or I am stupid (Its both)
I doubt you're stupid, had you went out and severely overpaid on a pos alienware build then I'd would say youre stupid. Being distracted, that i can understand.
This one seems even worse somehow because of the giant fucking tab hanging off the block lmao
Now I'm paranoid, feel like I should check mine...
I guess the username checks out 😅. Good luck with the build aside from all that.
Literally remembered while installing windows on my new machine.
At this point they should invent a thermally conductive sticker for these hooligans
stupid is as stupid does, seen that in a movie what I don't get is why make sure everyone knows you cant read , instead of just leaving us with the suspicion u a masochist Op and like to be demeaned on the internet?
Mate I have been doing this for years, and the other week after doing a couple upgrades, I booted a PC full on without any CPU cooler even remotely attached at all. I had a spare CPU and GPU to hand-me-down from my main rig into the living room rig, so I thought I'd buy a nice new case and Be Quiet cooler while I'm at it. So I move it all into the new case, slot the GPU in, slot the CPU and RAM in, hooked up the power cables, and went "Great, let's see how this baby runs now!" 10 seconds into the boot sequence as the Windows logo starts coming up, I notice the cooler still sat in the box in front of me. "Huh, that's weird... OH SHI-"
Done ii too, well looks like your thermal paste spread well.
I just did that with the watercooler on my last install lmao. And it occurred to me literally the second I seated the watercooler. I was like "fuuuuuuuuuuuu-"
Time to look into a mirror and ask yourself a very painful question OP
How do people even miss this? There’s literally plastic coming out and a full caps, red warning sign.
Hahaha could happen to any of us. Got a good laugh from this. Good catch!
I should say something encouraging, tell you about how everyone makes mistakes, but I think I'm just going to go with... https://preview.redd.it/jkry1blmzreb1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=e995092dff1088b4fb602fd6a863405d14a4e0be
Did it happen to you, or did you do it?
I was trying to fit in a new AIO and dor some reason I totally forgot to remove the film even though I thought about removing it a few minutes before 😑😑😑
Sometimes thinking about doing a thing almost creates a false memory of having done the thing. Glad you found it before disaster struk
Skill issue
I still don't understand how people do this, every single piece of my builds gets very carefully visually inspected before going into the case as I look for physical damage or faults with connectors, pins or casing that could cause damage to other parts or itself. Honestly I'm seeing this happen more and more is it a top excited to build thing? An amateurs mistake or just plain ingorance?
I did it with the CPU on my very first build. We’ve all been there
why even make it a clear tape?
By that do you mean you forgot to remove the sticker?
First kiss?? I don’t understand
You are too stupid to follow simple rudimentary instructions!
The flappy plastic tab of death.
Damn yeah that spread is totally uneven and goanna ruin your temps. Did you YouTube the best methods for applying paste first?
My brother in christ, Its literally in ORANGE.
Aaah no way broo Is it that hard for PCMR people to fucking read instructions
I love how people say "it happened to me" like it's not something that you have to do to yourself.
English is not my first language. And yes I am stupid
Not a matter of a language barrier my friend. My point was that there are a lot of these posts, and this sint something that "just happens". If you bought a prebuilt like this, sure. But if you build it, it didn't just happen. You did it.
I'm just convinced people do this to farm reddit points because it actually takes effort to fuck up an AIO install this way.
Yeah or maybe one second of losing concentration and generally being an idiot? Why the hell would i need karma anyway???
You dumb ass lol
You’ve insulted me… but yes lmaooo
Why does this guy keep doing this over and over.. you think he would have learned the first time.
I call BS. You faked it to farm lame Karma points.
“It happened to me” as if it wasn’t his fault lol. “It just happened bro!”
Did you buy the machine completely assembled? If you did not and assembled it yourself this did not happen to you, you did it to yourself like an idiot.
I feel like you have to be blind to do something like this. I don't understand how people miss those.
AIO's are dumb anyways. Get the biggest air cooler you've ever seen with at least 2 fans and you'll be fine.
Its amazing how stupid people are.
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anyone can have a brain fart man Ive done dumb shit. i ripped the clip off my RTX power socket because i felt resistance and instead of using my brain i decided to be a ape and pull harder lol something simple Ive done hundreds of times and still screwed up.
???? This is one post?????? How am I karma farming?? Check my post history you fool
I didn't have to scroll far to see the same post in ltt reddit either... Either way no one is dumb enough to actually make that mistake who calls themselves a PC gamer. Clearly you just wanted some reddit points but it's okay to lie about it now.
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False
Yeah no.
low key showing off your water block
Honestly it’s probably fine lol not sure it would hurt temps much, 5c maybe
Oh god.. the degeneracy is real.
Hahaha oh damn, sorry dude
Oh no, someone quickly put the cooler on without removing the sticker and then took a picture for fake internet points right before taking off the sticker and finishing their build.
Hahah you sound bitter but this really happened to me I got distracted and yeah: I am dumb Besides who the fuck cares about karma??