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Corsair H100i Installation screw up, possible to remount without fresh paste?

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April 25, 2014 1:51:44 PM

I managed to put in the wrong standoffs (I put in the 2011 when I needed the 1150 standoffs).

Do I NEED to replace it, can I get away with using it for now and waiting for a delivery or can I just use it as is?

Thanks in advance

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April 25, 2014 1:54:38 PM

no put new paste on
but if you can just push it to the center it could last you a few days
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April 25, 2014 2:01:01 PM

DeliciousJaffa said:
Nicolay Setre said:
Would never recommend reusing thermal paste. Ofc if we are talking like (i mounted it 1 min ago then realised it was wrong), then it shouldn't be a problem.


It was around 5 minutes between removing it, installing the correct stand offs and pushing it onto the CPU again. The first time I couldn't secure it because of the stand offs, so the machine hasn't been on yet.



Like is said, if it was detected a short time after installing it, then its no prob. The "1 min" was just a figure of speech. :) 
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April 25, 2014 1:55:53 PM

Would never recommend reusing thermal paste. Ofc if we are talking like (i mounted it 1 min ago then realised it was wrong), then it shouldn't be a problem.
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April 25, 2014 1:58:22 PM

Nicolay Setre said:
Would never recommend reusing thermal paste. Ofc if we are talking like (i mounted it 1 min ago then realised it was wrong), then it shouldn't be a problem.


It was around 5 minutes between removing it, installing the correct stand offs and pushing it onto the CPU again. The first time I couldn't secure it because of the stand offs, so the machine hasn't been on yet.
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a c 84 à CPUs
April 25, 2014 1:58:41 PM

yeah if it sat around a while dont use it but if it was recent go for it
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April 25, 2014 2:03:46 PM

yeah just resmear it to wear it looks kinda even your cool
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April 26, 2014 2:07:10 PM

I continued ahead with my build and did some stress testing to verify that the thermal paste was ok. At 100% load on my i7-4770k, the H100i kept the temperature under 50 celsius on a custom fan curve that got up to around 1800RPM.
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April 26, 2014 4:39:34 PM

DeliciousJaffa said:
I continued ahead with my build and did some stress testing to verify that the thermal paste was ok. At 100% load on my i7-4770k, the H100i kept the temperature under 50 celsius on a custom fan curve that got up to around 1800RPM.


Socket or core temp?
Stock or overclocket?
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April 26, 2014 7:26:54 PM

Nicolay Setre said:

Socket or core temp?
Stock or overclocket?


Stock at the time, but I've got an "OC" at 4.0Ghz now. The CPU is around 35C idle, sometimes a little over 50 with the OC. Within acceptable ranges for myself. I'm not sure how big of a difference between the H100i temperature and the CPU temperature there should be but I'm assuming the gap of a few Celsius is to do with them being different sensors etc.
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April 27, 2014 5:48:32 PM

50c on any 1150 cpu with an oc for a load temp is pretty awesome
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