I'm stupid and I broke the pressure pins where the cooler is held when I went to clean my PC and change the thermal paste.
Apparently, nowhere in my city seems to sell this blue piece thingy I need to substitute.
What to do?
I'm stupid and I broke the pressure pins where the cooler is held when I went to clean my PC and change the thermal...
Adrian Brown
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Nicholas Ross
measure, design and send to 3d printer service?
Eli Cox
The best thing to do would be kill yourself for being such a fucking retard.
Easton Gray
Board looks old as fuck.
Consider upgrading components
Michael Murphy
For starters, (You) have too much thermal paste.
You should be able to buy a replacement bracket for a few neetbucks on feebay.
Zachary Richardson
Holy baby jesus thermal paste wtf
Tyler Foster
Your image made me so uncomfortable, why is there so much paste?
Mason Flores
This.
OP, you're stupid in more ways than one. You obviously put too much of the thermal paste on the CPU. The thermal paste just covers up the cracks inside the metal casing so heat dissipation is more even.
Thermal paste isn't some magic cooling heat super-conducer that can transfer heat faster from the CPU to the cooler plate than the CPU surface and cooler plate actually touching.
Remember, the cooler is taking heat away from the CPU.
Oliver Stewart
Man you're reminding me of the first time I applied Thermal Paste. I drew a Star.
My brother just facepalmed and told me to get some fucking Q-Tips. Good times:
Jayden Hill
Oh , I just thought it was supposed to cover the entire thing
Well thanks
Mason Martin
It is supposed to cover the whole thing, but with an as thin as possible layer.
Sebastian Jones
Just put a small blob in the centre of the chip, then put the cooler on.
Samuel Wright
>blob
Let's be specific. About the size of a pea
Jordan Allen
Like you are "Technically" suppose to do for brushing your teeth, just a dab of the stuff.
Adrian Lee
The blue piece thingy is called AMD retention bracket. Just get one from ebay
Nicholas Diaz
You don't really need the cooler. The thermal paste will dissipate the heat just fine.
They just put heat sinks on from the factory for that cool "whooshing" sound that the fan makes.
Trust me dude.
Xavier Carter
Don't listen to him. That doesn't work with all pastes. You can damage your CPU. It will work with liquid metal paste, though.
Michael Moore
Alternativelly, there are coolers that don't need to bracket and attach into the holes on the motherboard. You could get one of those, upside would be more silence.
For example SilentiumPC Fera 2/3 (not sure if you can buy that in USA). Using that and it's pretty nice and cheap.
Justin Bailey
Woah. Are those wood screws?
Jace Hall
this
you might even be able to pull one from an old board
Isaac Nelson
I always thought you were supposed to cover the teeth
Jose Long
Yeah, but then only take the top part, not the bottom, which might be specific to your motherboard's layout.
No, there is a support piece on the other side that they screw into. It is fairly robust usually, more robust than usual Intel mobo I'd say.
Oliver Gonzalez
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William Williams
Ignore everyone else on this board. Buy a cooler Master hyper 212 evo. You completely remove that blue piece and replace it, plus you get a way better cooler. It's like $50. Problem solved plus upgrade.
Eli Clark
zip ties
Isaac Thomas
I saw a Pentium 4 with that treatment.
Carter White
linus fag tips did it with a $20k xeon once fir the views.
Isaiah Adams
I had to call a local mom and pop computer shop, and they pulled one of a old motherboard in their junk pile...good luck.
Gavin Carter
Yeah, or if you have some wider contacts, try to ask people around.
Charles Richardson
they used to sell those on newegg.
Kevin Brooks
This shit is so stupid. Why do you people think the thermal paste has any effect on the space between the heatsink base and the heat spreader? Is your thermal compound a piece of metal?
OP just get another bracket from another AMD board or get another cooler so you don't have to use that thing.
Samuel Gomez
>$20k xeon
Doesn't exist
Levi Wilson
every third party after market CPU cooler needs you to remove that anyway so just get a 212 evo
Josiah White
Not all of them.
Michael Rogers
what ones actually play nice with that ugly hunk of plastic shit?
Levi Reyes
Cheaper ones generally I think.
I considered this one last year, before opting for another with the hole mounting.
silentiumpc.com
Too bad, because this one would be usable with AM4 boards in future.