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Need to buy a good hsf for am4 (Ryzen 2600) looking for something 6+ pipes tower or downdraft is fine. Needs not to be one of the direct contact models with the exposed heat pipes on bottom. Lapped or not is fine. Had planned on using my thermalright u120 but they want to rape me on the mount...

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According to Stephan previously from The Verge, aren't you supposed to smear it into the pins, and then put a toothpaste size patty on top of the cpu? on a more serious note, I typically heat the syringe in hot water prior to application and couple it with another, move it back and forth...

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where was this wed when i bought a 2600 from newegg, lol. bump for a killer deal

the last rig i tore down (sold to chiefjoe) was an i5-2600k that i built right when they launched, can't remember the day, i replaced the tim once back around 2013-2014 and when i took it down, it was still moist and tacky, but had obviously wicked from center to sides, probably due to the curve...

yea was thrown off by the way usb done things for a while. you know what i meant tho.

wasn't talking about pcie 4, im reffering to pcie 3.0 gen 4. b450 has pcie 3.0 gen 3, x570 bumps to pcie 3.0 gen 4. there were talks of enabling gen4 on b450 but amd blocked it from what ive read. atm there aren't really that many gpus that gain from it, but nvme drives do. IMO if i were to...

I also converted a closet to fit a slide out 42u rack (i use rails on all of them since i can't easily get to the back of it. i installed this on the roof used a short run of 6" stove pipe to go from roof to the ceiling and put in a standard 6" ceiling duct for hvac, and then i put this inline...

I've been using artic silver 5 for years. Finally my tube ran out and its time to get more, stick with as5 or go with something different? was looking at the noctua stuff, gelid, and others. Conductivity isn't a big deal, i DO NOT wanna go with liquid metal, prefer a standard paste type TIM...

even if they did, why would you want to. b450 isn't going to support pcie 3 gen 4, and that is one of the big pluses for the 3xxx series and up. at first it was said that b450 may get bios update to allow it on some models, but then amd said it wasn't gonna happen on b450 im looking forward to...

Originally was only looking at the non-x models, but now that the price has really dropped I may go for the X, as far as the hsf is concerned, i've never used an oem heatsink for my desktops and probably never will. I'll stick to my trusty towers and downdrafts. as soon as i can source a solid...

modi123 have you updated the firmware to do mesh bed leveling? i took the touch probe off my mini-cnc and put it on my prusa and mesh leveled the bed and boy did it make a difference, i was kinda amazed. the bltouch probes work pretty good too, just need to disassemble and tighten them up a bit imo