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July 1, 2014 3:02:59 PM

Hey, i finally got my new mobo and cpu. I'm building a pc by buying parts seperately (by that i mean that i don't buy all parts on the same time) and i was going to install the cpu on motherboard. Got the cpu correctly on the motherboard, but while installing heatsink, i didn't understand the instructions well, and my heatsink went on a bit too high at the first time. replaced it correctly right after that. Do you think that i should wipe off the thermal paste and apply new one because of that? i haven't got anything but mobo and cpu atm so i can't check if it gets bad temperatures.

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July 1, 2014 3:04:58 PM

typo404 said:
Hey, i finally got my new mobo and cpu. I'm building a pc by buying parts seperately (by that i mean that i don't buy all parts on the same time) and i was going to install the cpu on motherboard. Got the cpu correctly on the motherboard, but while installing heatsink, i didn't understand the instructions well, and my heatsink went on a bit too high at the first time. replaced it correctly right after that. Do you think that i should wipe off the thermal paste and apply new one because of that? i haven't got anything but mobo and cpu atm so i can't check if it gets bad temperatures.


If the thermal compound covers the whole CPU, or at least the middle where the die is, you are fine.
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July 1, 2014 3:06:33 PM

Doesn't hurt to redo.
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July 1, 2014 3:07:21 PM

Andrew Buck said:
typo404 said:
Hey, i finally got my new mobo and cpu. I'm building a pc by buying parts seperately (by that i mean that i don't buy all parts on the same time) and i was going to install the cpu on motherboard. Got the cpu correctly on the motherboard, but while installing heatsink, i didn't understand the instructions well, and my heatsink went on a bit too high at the first time. replaced it correctly right after that. Do you think that i should wipe off the thermal paste and apply new one because of that? i haven't got anything but mobo and cpu atm so i can't check if it gets bad temperatures.


If the thermal compound covers the whole CPU, or at least the middle where the die is, you are fine.


it was on half of it could say. and there still was some of it on the heatsink, i think it covers the other half as well.

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July 1, 2014 3:09:32 PM

typo404 said:
Andrew Buck said:
typo404 said:
Hey, i finally got my new mobo and cpu. I'm building a pc by buying parts seperately (by that i mean that i don't buy all parts on the same time) and i was going to install the cpu on motherboard. Got the cpu correctly on the motherboard, but while installing heatsink, i didn't understand the instructions well, and my heatsink went on a bit too high at the first time. replaced it correctly right after that. Do you think that i should wipe off the thermal paste and apply new one because of that? i haven't got anything but mobo and cpu atm so i can't check if it gets bad temperatures.


If the thermal compound covers the whole CPU, or at least the middle where the die is, you are fine.


it was on half of it could say. and there still was some of it on the heatsink, i think it covers the other half as well.



Then you are probably fine. As for temps, they are read incorrectly in windows, so don't worry what they say. Use something like AMD Overdrive to see temps.
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July 1, 2014 3:15:50 PM

Andrew Buck said:
typo404 said:
Andrew Buck said:
typo404 said:
Hey, i finally got my new mobo and cpu. I'm building a pc by buying parts seperately (by that i mean that i don't buy all parts on the same time) and i was going to install the cpu on motherboard. Got the cpu correctly on the motherboard, but while installing heatsink, i didn't understand the instructions well, and my heatsink went on a bit too high at the first time. replaced it correctly right after that. Do you think that i should wipe off the thermal paste and apply new one because of that? i haven't got anything but mobo and cpu atm so i can't check if it gets bad temperatures.


If the thermal compound covers the whole CPU, or at least the middle where the die is, you are fine.


it was on half of it could say. and there still was some of it on the heatsink, i think it covers the other half as well.



Then you are probably fine. As for temps, they are read incorrectly in windows, so don't worry what they say. Use something like AMD Overdrive to see temps.


it's an asrock mobo so i think the temperatures would be also shown in bios by what i've seen.

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July 1, 2014 3:16:48 PM

typo404 said:
Andrew Buck said:
typo404 said:
Andrew Buck said:
typo404 said:
Hey, i finally got my new mobo and cpu. I'm building a pc by buying parts seperately (by that i mean that i don't buy all parts on the same time) and i was going to install the cpu on motherboard. Got the cpu correctly on the motherboard, but while installing heatsink, i didn't understand the instructions well, and my heatsink went on a bit too high at the first time. replaced it correctly right after that. Do you think that i should wipe off the thermal paste and apply new one because of that? i haven't got anything but mobo and cpu atm so i can't check if it gets bad temperatures.


If the thermal compound covers the whole CPU, or at least the middle where the die is, you are fine.


it was on half of it could say. and there still was some of it on the heatsink, i think it covers the other half as well.



Then you are probably fine. As for temps, they are read incorrectly in windows, so don't worry what they say. Use something like AMD Overdrive to see temps.


it's an asrock mobo so i think the temperatures would be also shown in bios by what i've seen.



Yes, but when you are in windows and want to see temps, just open AMD Overdrive. That will not display temperature, but how far from recommended maximum you are.
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