thermal paste nightmare

WYNIR0 · 27 Apr 2012 at 09:48

Agreed, it's working and hasn't shorted out. If it was going to it would have failed straight way. Leave it well enough alone and stop worrying.

Drake5 · 27 Apr 2012 at 11:10

Cheers guys - Yeah I'm just going to leave it alone now.

One last question, when I initially dropped the CPU it picked up a bit of a scratch on the left lip, took an image on Google to explain:

A tiny bit of the silver surface scratched away from it but alls this does is protect the underside of the CPU anyway I think?

Thanks

Drake5 · 28 Apr 2012 at 02:48

Anyone know if that scratch will likely cause me any problems down the line?

Seems to be that the silver 'topping' has been removed a tiny bit and you can see a kinda copper underside.

Krono5 · 28 Apr 2012 at 04:04

Tom_D said:
Anyone know if that scratch will likely cause me any problems down the line? Seems to be that the silver 'topping' has been removed a tiny bit and you can see a kinda copper underside.

No problems whatsoever. Infact some people (lap) sand down the IHS (top side) to improve temps by making it flatter/smoother.

Barry1987 · 28 Apr 2012 at 09:31

As long as you haven't got chunks of the stuff embedded in the chip side then it will be fine. I also got a little bit on the pins and just slowly wiped it off with a spare spectacles cloth.

BuToNz · 28 Apr 2012 at 11:23

It's really not easy to destroy a CPU by handling it, you'd have to create some harsh static charge to damage it. A finger print worth of thermal grease won't be conductive enough to bridge anything.

Drake5 · 28 Apr 2012 at 12:29

Krono5 said:
No problems whatsoever. Infact some people (lap) sand down the IHS (top side) to improve temps by making it flatter/smoother.

That's what I thought.

Just concerned me a bit with it being on the side part though and not the actual top of the CPU.

Cheers

kmax86 · 28 Apr 2012 at 13:04

Tom_D said:
Cheers guys - Yeah I'm just going to leave it alone now.

One last question, when I initially dropped the CPU it picked up a bit of a scratch on the left lip, took an image on Google to explain:

http://i.imgur.com/Q2uQS.jpg?1

A tiny bit of the silver surface scratched away from it but alls this does is protect the underside of the CPU anyway I think?

Thanks

that scratch comes from the flip lock of socket also have those in my cpu

Drake5 · 28 Apr 2012 at 18:14

kmax86 said:
that scratch comes from the flip lock of socket also have those in my cpu

Yeah I thought thats where it might have come from as my brother had it in his PC for a bit first but I also think it might have appeared when I dropped the cpu.

scrlk · 28 Apr 2012 at 18:24

Tom_D said:
That's what I thought.

Just concerned me a bit with it being on the side part though and not the actual top of the CPU.

Cheers

In most cases, the actual die is slightly larger than your thumb's finger nail.