I've been having problems with my new build randomly turning off at various points, and after taking everything apart again realised there was a small dab of thermal paste on the CPU in between two pins.
Just wondering if the thermal paste on the CPU could be the reason for the random shutdowns, and what I may be able to do to fix it?
can thermal paste really cause the computer to crash out?
I've tried to add a photo - the paste is 1/4 of the way down on the left hand side -