Customer stated he didn’t have a CPU cooler installed because he did not know he needed one and that “oh by the way I did put the thermal paste between the CPU & Motherboard for cooling.” Believe it or not, it did load into the OS. We attempted before realizing it was under the CPU.
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Is the CPU ruined? Or can it be cleaned off?
LOL
Lawd I hope that CPU wasn’t expensive
Compsci degree from the 80s, maybe
This hurt my eyes and my brain.
The CS major just rawdogged it instead of looking it up?
This guy tests in production, I guarantee it.
Edit: about the trucker analogy that someone responded with
Applying thermal paste is not the same as rebuilding the engine. It’s like changing the oil.
And as someone who works for a company whose clients are truckers, yes, they are expected to know basic maintenance. Just like CS major should know the basics of computer hardware. My CS MINOR in college literally had a required class dedicated to computer hardware. I imagine a major HAD to have taken this.
Either way, the key point is that he had access to information on how to do it. But then decided that it would be better to just do random shit rather than look up what to do.
have seen a lot of computer scientists that are genius for theory and software and programming that would never touch hardware because it is not their thing.
anyways. sad to see this.
The CPU can be cleaned but the motherboard likely has to be replaced.
Could be worse…he could’ve watched YouTube and saw Liquid Metal 🙂
it can be saved but daaamn thats gonna be tedious.
At least it’s not ruined, right?
i bet he saw that meme gif putting paste like that and he thought it was the instructions.
this might be a dumb question, but is it even worth cleaning from the socket since paste is non conductive? would that really cause any major problems either now or down the line?
They made a cpu and thermal paste sandwich
So close, and yet so far.
WHATTTT! How does that even happen?!!
In high school for IT, half of my class would 100% be capable of doing this.
Looks like they used the size of a pea method.
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Sir this is a Wendy’s stop lying on your application is what I would tell this idiot.
I’ve done IT work for all kinds of professionals that use high powered systems. Devs, 3d designers, video editors, etc. Never met a group of people who knew so little about their tools.
So painful to see…
Computer science is not the same as IT work. I’m really not surprised this happened
Did even care about even coverage..smh.
I give them a semester.
He must have watched the Verge build video.
I interviewed a college comp Sci grad before that could not turn on the computer for a practical test.
She kept hitting the space bar and enter key.
Needless to say, not a hire.
Typical CS major.
Just cause you are a CS Major doesnt mean you know how computers work. Honestly some of the most frequent and annoying people I help are other IT people
😂
Needs more thermal compound. It obviously doesn’t work cause there’s pins not covered
looks like that student loan wasn’t worth it……… good thing McDonald’s is hiring
The dumbest people have doctorates.
At least it wasn’t liquid metal he put there lol
What in the name of Linus Tech Tips is this shit🤣
I mean, being a CS major doesn’t mean you know hardware, but cmon.
Ahh, the old “scientist” vs “engineer” scenario.
Remember kids; alcohol can fix most problems in life
this is why there is a distinction between computer science and computer engineering lol
CS Major? More like a CS Corporal lmao
Computer science is for coding right? Too bad there’s no backspace for this oppsie
I’m no detective but this is what happened:
comp sci students often know nothing of actual hardware unless its their hobby. Its not taught well in schools. Lowest level they get to hardware is operating systems dealing with thread scheduling and file tables.
tbf coder doesn’t mean hardware for a reason lol
This person has management written all over them.
Dude has been watching the verge build
My God…
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It’s no longer a render.
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God I love people with CS degrees because they are so confidently wrong about almost everything that isn’t literally computer science. Gives me endless laughs as someone who has always sort of been a jack of all trades and master of none kind of guy.
Experimental computer science*