Peel off the sticker on your CPU, folks. My first PC build was full of lessons learned.
Peel off the sticker on your CPU, folks. My first PC build was full of lessons learned.
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Hmm. I expected worse would happen, like it melts or bursts into flames.
Welcome to the club of “I forgot to peel off the cooler protective film”, you’re not the first and surely not the last.
Dont worry there is always one big mistake. I remembered the film only to connect my monitor to the motherboard. Took about fifteen minutes and a youtube video to realize it was supposed to go with the GPU.
Most people do this once.
They should really start putting obvious warning labels on these
At least you got a G305 to make up for it
Sticker was not the culprit, you were.
So you posted wrong pic.
Dont feel too bad, it is not like you put your glas panel on cermamic floor
What a Linus.
Happens to the best of us.
Even Linus has made this mistake, don’t be too hard on yourself.
Slowing down, taking time to read the mobo manual, making sure everything is properly unboxed for your needs step by step cuts into the excitement… However, it also cuts down on things going wrong that can be costly (in terms of either time or money, and sometimes both).
Did you burn out your cpu?
Go easy on yourself. I just replaced my kitchen water filter cartridges and realised the old ones still had their plastic wrapping on….
Sorry to say, but the culprit is holding the camera.
Did this 5 months ago, while telling myself to not do it…
I put in some fans backward once.
At some point they’ll develop thermal interface packaging, just in case you forget to remove the film. Doesn’t even need good performance, just enough to not fuck shit up.
I’ve done it.
I was so paranoid thanks to posts like this one when building my PC recently XD I was checking literally everything for stickers
At this point they should stop putting these stickers all together.
Eh it’s not dumb if you actually realized what the problem was and fixed it
People make mistakes
It’s the people who double down and wont check things like this that are dumb…
It’s like the first thing everyone recommends checking on a new pc if cpu temps are spiking but people don’t check lol
https://preview.redd.it/tjxs9ol4w7ef1.jpeg?width=759&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b4dbee9d0fdae5ac50efe0bf63af3ce62611ddd
Nothing to be ashamed of
I am in my 30s and have built a lot of computers for myself and friends, the first time I ever did this was a few weeks ago and it took an embarrassing amount of time to figure out. Seems to happen to everyone eventually
I did the same on my old 10900k, Easily done. Building pcs since the early 2000s so happens to us all
Don’t worry bro, every day you learn something new, don’t worry!
Don’t assemble PC on speed bro
bet you’ll never forget it again!
Been there done that, despite what some elitest might say, it happens to all of us.
I ran Anthem on PC for like 2 months wondering why my new build was running at 90c lol. Never so much as a hickup or a BSOD, ran totally fine that entire time except for being hot obviously.
I’ve done this too OP. What grinds my gears is that we can make that plastic out of any color imaginable, yet they still continue to make it clear. Make it bright red or neon green for us! Sheesh
If your first time doing something isn’t full of lessons then you’re either incompetent or lucky.
or maybe dont pre apply paste i got my own.
Is this an Intel thing? I’ve been using AMD since the 3000 series while always triple checking for these and they’re never there!
My grandfather used to call these “Operator Error”
finally ran something other than 2007scape eh?
What temps were you getting?
This brings back sweet memories and a bricked 6700k (literally the thermal sensor got cooked on it so it thinks it’s at 90c and just throttle kills itself)
Welcome to the club 🙂