Gunna replace my nzxt water cooler with a regular air fan. I hate tinkering with it when shit breaks 😭
Gunna replace my nzxt water cooler with a regular air fan. I hate tinkering with it when shit breaks 😭
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What kind of NZXT do you have? and do you smoke gas aka zaza by chance?
Did that not have a smell? Would think that’d be a rather unique odor….
Was the cooling system just not up to the task of keeping the cpu cool?
What thermal paste did you apply that it cooked?
Are you gonna be able to remove it?😂
(Asking for future reference since I have a 7 year old pc that I didnt do any maintenance on aside from removing dust)
That’s not thermal paste. There’s definitely something else going on here. Looks an awful lot like smoke/vape residue
That’s not thermal paste. Thermal paste will remain completely fine at way above any temperature an AM4 CPU will attain.
Your CPU cooler was not attached properly and it was allowing contamination in. From the top, by the looks of it.
Unless you were cooking that thing at 500C, this is not overheating damage. Don’t smoke indoors.
someone took a liquid shit on there and called it a day…
That’s not just thermal paste definitely some type of contamination, I’ve ripped bad coolers off of my systems after years and not once seen thermal paste that was that color.
Fried egg
Forget to peel plastic off the cpu or the cooler?
That’s vape residue dumbass don’t smoke inside and especially not near exposed hardware 👍
It’s crazy people are saying it’s from vaping lol 🤣 I vape next to my pc for hours a day for years, have rebuilt it many of times, and it’s never looks anywhere close to that lol looks more like the aio was leaking slightly or condensation caused rust (not saying that’s what it is) DEFINITELY wasn’t from vaping lmao
You sure you didn’t fry an egg off of it and just didn’t use enough butter or oil to stop it from sticking?
Show us the AIO. Looks like either a bad paste job or the plastic film, that should be removed, on the aio melted
Crispy
CPU heatsink definitely lacking pressure, poorly mounted.
Did you use cheese?
Did you use an egg as thermal paste
Coolant leak?
That’s not thermal paste. Thermal paste has a tolerance of like 1000 degrees. Your cpu would have melted and your mobo would have caught on fire before thermal paste fried like that.
Somebody fucked up. Either they left a sticker on, contaminated the paste, or used a bunk product.
That does not look like thermal paste. Did you perhaps forget to peel off the protective film from the bottom of the heatsink before applying it? It looks a lot like melted plastic to me lol.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned it, but it could be a cooler leak.
No way is this thermal paste alone. Check for leaks in your water block or tubing. I have changed 15 year old thermal paste that looks better than this. Something is wrong here and you need to figure it out. You already crossed on vaping (ignore the smart asses still giving you grief) so look into leaks.
Don’t ignore this issue, this isn’t normal.
Was there the plastic layer still on the cooler? Or something else? Ive never seen that in my life and destroyed some old pentiums due to overheating.
This looks like the cooler didn’t even squish the paste out. No reason for the dried paste to be anywhere near as thick as it is. Were there different spacers for the cooler depending on intel/amd socket? Some coolers come with spacers of different heights so the same cooler can fit on either type of CPU. I feel like I’ve always needed the shorter spacers for AMD stuff.
Bro accidentally created a new ecosystem
Looks like your liquid cooler was leaking….
did you use eggs as thermal paste?
Air cooling is the best. Fan breaks? Replace it for like 5-10 bucks.
The best air coolers are very capable.
Water cooling isn’t worth the extra risks in my opinion
Hope you never have to deal with this crap again and your cpu is all good
dead water pump?
copper melted?