I just had one of those "OH, NO!" moments...

[Joseph F]

I was disappointed with the cooling performance of my thermal paste on my CPU,
so I removed the heatsink, cleaned it off, and applied some Arctic Alumina. (Which I had received as a gift)
Later on, I looked up my paste on Newegg to see how favorably it was reviewed. And what came up was "Arctic Alumina thermal adhesive".
I looked at the spec sheet and it said it was permanent. (So, I was essentially, permanently affixing my piece of shit stock cooler to my brand-new 2500k) I just about shit my pants and looked on Google to find that there are two different products that are called "Arctic Alumina" one is a two-part epoxy-esque adhesive, the other is a regular ceramic-based thermal paste. (Which I have)

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Cool story bro.

Why use Cyrillic letters? You are not even from there. You said ON SHIT. What is this?

 

[Joseph F]

I was just trying to get around the forum rules that prevent you from cursing in your thread title. I was kind of in an adrenaline rush so I didn't think to spell "Oh" like "Ox".

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I was just trying to get around the forum rules that prevent you from cursing in your thread title.

You didn't.
admin allisolm

 

[darkswordsman17]

Eh, not a huge deal really, not like it'd be that difficult to move on from it (could probably trade it with the HSF for someone else's bare 2500K CPU for instance; or find a home for it in parent/sibling/friend/etc's computer), and running the stock HSF with that CPU would be plenty fine long enough for much more advanced to come along.

 

[Joseph F]

Well, if it had happened, I would be stuck with it in my MSI P67A-G43, as you cannot remove an LGA processor from the socket with the heatsink on. If I had done it with it not in a board... that would be a fuckin' bummer.

 

[dawp]

nvm, just reread your post.

 

[JSt0rm]

just enjoy your computer stock for a while and if you cant deal sell it as a system to somebody who will never overclock.