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STEAM | August 2015 - Three versions of Windows since the last Half-Life
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derExperte
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In case someone doesn't know (I didn't for a while): Not only is that obviously too much thermal paste but you don't spread it yourself, you put a nice blob in the middle and then mount the heat sink. Otherwise you can easily get little air bubbles in there which of course isn't ideal.
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gif from the new Mad Max trailer
just wish MM's face didn't look like it was from a generic character made in fallout 3.
After the discussion we had here about him cheating on clicker games I'm not surprised at all lol
Don't tell me that you really do this?
gif from the new Mad Max trailer
Avalanche really is the king of explosions when it comes to games.
As long as he has fun going into SAM and clicking the button to unlock all achievements, right.
derExperte
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It's the ultimate (meta-)clicker gamer.
What's wrong with this picture.
Oh... it's not so bad
...
*spills on the side and tries to scoop it back up*
WTF , i thought it was server side only and can't on steam side
i thought maybe i'll try this
FUCK.., now i going to be banned
i thought maybe i'll try this
SERVERSIDE ACHIEVEMENTS? WUT?
That's right. Steam now has the capability to secure achievements from being managed. Naturally this means you can't unlock them. Good for them.
FUCK.., now i going to be banned
Jawmuncher
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MMBosstones86
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What's wrong with this picture.
The real question is what's right with it.
Leafhopper
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spindoctor
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People actually do what's shown in the gif though. It's called the 'credit card' method. Obviously too much thermal paste but it is a fairly common thing.
Couple of months ago I tried something I saw in a Youtube video
Don't know what I was thinking as it's obviously a stupid idea. And this was the (expected) outcome...
Not one of my finer moments...
Jawmuncher
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I'll take the DerExperte answer. Just the perfect amount of what I need there. I figured it was about scooping it and trying to spread it, but I wanted to be sure. Regardless it falling off the board is bad enough, even if you don't know.
derExperte
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What does this sentence even mean?
Leafhopper
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I don't know. I meant to ask that in my post but, I was too busy laughing.
i thought its only unlock in my side , not in server side
The Dear Leader
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A pea sized dot of thermal past and either your finger in a bag to spread or a credit card type objective, that's the appropriate way of doing it.
If you have to squeeze the tube twice, stop, you have made a mistake.
If you have to clean up excess thermal paste from around your CPU, stop, and re-evaluate your life.
If you find that you are using toothpaste or any other creamy substance ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) for thermal paste, stop, you are clearly too dumb to build you're own PC, please visit www.alienware.com and purchase a PC there.
If you have to squeeze the tube twice, stop, you have made a mistake.
If you have to clean up excess thermal paste from around your CPU, stop, and re-evaluate your life.
If you find that you are using toothpaste or any other creamy substance ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) for thermal paste, stop, you are clearly too dumb to build you're own PC, please visit www.alienware.com and purchase a PC there.
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so you just wanted the achievements...to look at for yourself?
what's the purpose of that
Isn't that common practice in corporate world?
derExperte
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No, no spreading pls. Unless you're JaseC and love torturing your CPU. Though I wonder if he even uses thermal paste?
Leafhopper
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What did you expect when you reconnected to Steam...?
Atraveller
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That Compensator build barely works, no breathing room for those Titan Xs, that's why they didn't even bother do benchmarks.
Ads like that are common in YouTube PC hardware videos.I'm sure he's a nice guy but something about Linus does my nut in. Plus the product placement in all of his vids urgh. I know the dude has got to get paid but some of it is so random. Logan and the chaps over at Tek Syndicate do some interesting vids and even though he can be a right berk TTL from OC3D is something I pop on in the background for shits and giggles when having a load of work on. I mean come on look at this monster cooling solution!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbpb23yTK8
Top tip do watch to the very, very end
Crazy people also spread thermal compound on their CPUs with their fingers. Gloved of course, they're not that crazy.
CPU dies have changed quite a bit over the last 5 years and if you crack the IHS off (the metal bit) you'll find that the die itself is only about a 10th of the size. On some older CPUs some would have a better connection to the heatsink with a line of compound rather than a pea but really these days every mainstream CPU a pea sized amount is perfect.
Yeah, no they're not in the ones I watch and I watch a lot. Linus was even advertising shaving foam in one video. Product placement at the beginning? Fine but having a close to 5 minute aside of unrelated material actually in the video in question is taking the piss to be fair as his vids are long enough and I value my time.
MMBosstones86
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The Dear Leader
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Spread it evenly to almost the edge before you put the CPU cooler on it, otherwise when you put the CPU cooler and tighten each corner it will spread incorrectly. Unless you can find some way to place the CPU cooler on and tighten each screw at the same time, thus spreading it evenly.
Instead of a credit card, use the back of a bread clip.
You have more control as it's not a big ass card and it's disposable (I prefer my credit cards not gooey).
I've never seen a benchmark or data to support these methods.
Seeing how that thing work ,
can I undo what I did?
I am really scared now to get banned
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Atraveller
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A little bit of thermal paste pushed a side won't kill you, unless your paste is crap.
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Snakethesniper
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Is the "put a little in the center and mount the cooler" method outdated?
No, just stop doing it. Odds are nothing will happen, because there isn't an achievements based competition going on currently, so. Relax. Stop using SAM, or using it a lot more sparingly and only when you're unlocking an achievement that's being stubborn despite you meeting its criteria.
No, that's still the easiest and most efficient method.
Use SAM to relock and you are fine again
Next time maybe you should try one game only so you won't be found out again by me
Leafhopper
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derExperte
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If you push the heat sink on the spreader once it should distribute itself perfectly. If the paste is still sludging around when tightening the screws you're using too much. And the whole die doesn't really need to be covered. The other method isn't a catastrophy or anything but as I said there's a big chance you aren't spreading it 100% evenly and will thus create small pockets of air. 'My' method on the other hand will push the paste and any air outwards while filling all the minuscule holes and crevaces.
The Dear Leader
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I don't have any official data but my CPU has been cool for the 4 years since I've applied the thermal paste, even at 4.2Ghz it rarely gets really hot even during intense gaming.
Lol, I don't know man my PC and the 2 I built for friends are all running cool breh (•_•
/ ( •_•>⌐□-□ / (⌐□_□Either way will work sure, I just have been doing it this way and it works fine and the temps are good.
Freedom = $1.05
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should we start creating a retro 8 bit tombstone for LORD now or wait till the Valve police IP ban him from Steam forever?
I'm not good at drawing so a headstart would be nice
I'm not good at drawing so a headstart would be nice
Backlogger
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All this CPU cooler talk reminds me I still need/want to get an aftermarket cooler for my 3570k. Any recommendations?
Also, I should have jumped on the Humble Weekly deal sooner. I guess I am surprised how the BTA edged up. Are people really buying Reassembly? Or is it just edging up due to people buying the BTA and rounding up their purchase? Oh well, it's only like a buck more than where it was yesterday.
Also, I should have jumped on the Humble Weekly deal sooner. I guess I am surprised how the BTA edged up. Are people really buying Reassembly? Or is it just edging up due to people buying the BTA and rounding up their purchase? Oh well, it's only like a buck more than where it was yesterday.
I should stop being so cheap...
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