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Heh. I've built a bunch of systems over the years (including updating and moving motherboards around), and I'm always nervous when I power it up the first time.
by flyinghamster 9y ago
Heh. I've built a bunch of systems over the years (including updating and moving motherboards around), and I'm always nervous when I power it up the first time.
Especially my latest, when I updated my main rig to a Ryzen 7/32 GB ECC/250 GB NVMe setup. About $1000 worth of new hardware, and the POST delay nearly gave me a heart attack. I shouldn't have worried, though, it worked on the first boot. wipes sweat from brow
CPU cooler installation always seems to be the worst part of it, and there just doesn't seem to be a way around that, since lots of force is needed to squash the cooler down and insure good contact. Still, I like the screw-down setup on the Ryzen far better than the older spring-clip designs, or the spring-loaded pegs on Intel coolers.
- Terribledactyl 9y agoI just put a threadripper build together and was surprised with an extremely difficult and finicky foxconn socket. Takes a while for my monitor to wake up and was sure I had killed it on first boot with the stream of cryptic messages from the motherboard, but it was fine.
- simooooo 9y agoThose sockets are driving everyone crazy. Lotes ones seem to be ok
- nasredin 9y agoGoing on a tangent. The best way to apply thermal paste AKA TIM: the thinnest possible layer ALL over the processor's surface. The pea method IMNSHO is stupid!
- Deestan 9y agoThe pea method eliminates bubbles. A thin layer does not.
- watersb 9y ago"Tinting" the cleaned surface of the CPU with thermal compund, mostly removed with a credit card or thin plastic scraper... and then applying the pea... Could it be that there is some merit to the "thin layer all over" message? But yes, easy to mis-communicate. I had not considered the problem of bubbles.