Im such a klutz

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delerium

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Well yesterday my parts came in, and when putting the amd heatsink on my 3600, the dumass that i am, i smudged the thermal paste with my fingers, cuz i forgot it was there.

i whipped out my license and tried to fix it as best as possible, but its still obvious that that side isnt as high as the other side of thermal paste.

i was checking temps last night in the pc health sectoin of bios, and im getting around 40c idle. Should i just leave the comp off till i can get some new as5? or will it break in and reduce temps some.
 
As long as your load temps aren't insanely high you won't hurt anything if you continue to use the machine until your new paste arrives. Just don't go overclocking and overvolting.
 
^^Yup^^
I did nearly the same thing when I put new paste on my gpu. I got the fan installed and then realized something was wrong and had to pull it back off. Of course the paste got messed up. Well, I just slapped it back together and installed it. I then started up ATItool (Sapphire X800Pro) and oc'd it after setting up my fan settings, etc. Wouldn't you know that I noticed a 16C(!) drop in temps under the max. mem test? It had been running at 80C but after reapplying the paste and cleaning things up it never went over 64C while it tested for max. mem speed. It was in dire need of new paste and a good shot of compressed air to get all the dust bunnies out of it. At any rate - I wouldn't sweat it too much. All you need is a paper thin coating - and that just over the core(s) anyhow.
 
mine hovers around the same temp and I worried about it too. Don't sweat it.
 
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