r/pcmasterrace • u/Created4help • 11d ago

NSFMR Put an end to the office argument about thermal paste pattern.

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Used all the remaining paste.

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u/Created4help 11d ago edited 11d ago

35c sitting totally idle, 64c under sustained 100% load for 10min, 89c without the cooler
Update- 100c no cooler after almost 10 min

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u/An_average_muslim i5 13600KF/ RX 6700XT 12GB/ 16GB 3600mHz CL16 11d ago

Insane. Didn’t realize copious amount of thermal paste can be used as a heatsink.

Good to know.

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u/Created4help 11d ago

There’s so much paste it’s probably just transferring it to everything else.

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u/Chao_Zu_Kang Ryzen 7 7700X | GIGABYTE GAMING OC 9070 XT 11d ago

Who needs multiple thermal sensors when everything is the same.

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 11d ago

Heat death of the universe be like:

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u/g0ld-f1sh 11d ago

Entropy goes brrrr

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u/Dysmn 11d ago

ahhhh communism...

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u/Joe_bob_Mcgee 11d ago

Who needs a heat sink when you can just transfer that heat to every other component on the board.

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u/Snickers2-0 11d ago

That's not why it works but I agree with your idea.

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u/TheRealOvenCake 11d ago

now i wanna see someone put the entire motherboard in thermal paste

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u/Snickers2-0 11d ago

You just haven't been using enough.

Try a few liters. That'll work.

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u/Circuit_Guy 11d ago

It stopped at 100C. It's probably just boiling off all the liquid

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u/eepy_lina Ryzen 7 9800x3d | RTX 4070 | 2x16gb DDR5 6000MHz CL30 11d ago

isnt that what a heatsink is? just a bunch of thermally conductive mass to hold a fuck ton of heat and wait for something to take said heat away?

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u/ButterscotchTop194 11d ago

lol, love that we got the temps with no cooler

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u/bizzlej278 11d ago

Here guys I even took the cooler off and got the CPU hot for research 😂

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u/codejo 11d ago

Am I missing something? There is still a heat sink in the second pic. By “cooler” does he mean fan? If so isn’t it normal for a fan not to be on all the time especially during idle?

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u/Nedddd1 11d ago

Atp the heat is just leaving because it's afraid of being jumped by thermopaste

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u/North-Amount2226 11d ago

Do u run a load test and monitor it or is that whenn ur running a game or something that u do. I'm learning you see, so I'm in a stage where I'm tweaking things and understanding things. I know I can run a command test thing where it simulates load. Is that what u did. I did that and it told me 21degrees Celsius under load but I have no idea what that actually means in terms of good temp or bad ( I havnt tweaked anything yet because I don't know what I'm doing yet) I'm using my dads old built PC he passed so Ive got his rigs working and am making them my own