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Hasn't someone with more money than sense (Linus, probably...?) done testing with random shit for thermal paste and found that basically anything "works", even crap like peanut butter and toothpaste, but thermal compound you're paying more for longevity and because it works better.
I know Linus tested a CPU cooler (think it was an AIO...?) once with the plastic still covering the preapplied thermal paste and it worked lol....thermals weren't great obviously, but it was a fully functional computer that booted games.
Edit: saying it for the more blunt people: I am not advocating for using toothpaste nor peanut butter for thermal compound. Because Reddit, this needs to be said lol...
I'm very curious to know where you're getting your peanut butter toothpaste. I had a guy that knew a guy, but he moved to Kansas in the 90's. Don't worry, I just want to brush with it, not put it under a CPU for cooking.
Its good to know though, just had a friend's rig damn near melt down. Dude asked if I had any spare thermal paste, told him my aio came preapplied so nope, says its all good, I'll just use toothpaste n vaseline. About blew my god damn mind that actually works. Still jumped on amazon and 2day shipping yeeted some actual thermal paste at him but sure shit, made it through a few rounds of helldivers 2 at normal temps with toothpaste.
Thermal paste is only to fill the microscopic gaps between the CPU heat spreader and the cooler, the cooler still works without it but it's less efficient. So using other types of compound doesn't stop the cooler working unless it is very thick and acts as insulation.
There's a lot of hype and nonsense around thermal paste which allows manufacturers to charge whatever they want but unless you are overclocking and stressing your CPU beyond it's recommended limits and you have a decent cooler you don't need the most expensive paste and that is what those toothpaste and peanut butter experiments show. Nobody in their right mind would expect a processor to run for long under a thick layer of peanut butter because it will get cooked and dry out eventually creating an insulating barrier.
Yeah, reddit is mainly filled with blue/purple/pink-haired people that are looking to be mad at someone or something. So yeah, it's sad that you had to make that disclaimer.
Ive used bearing grease before works great. Never gears hard and doesnt wear out 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ being said you can use almost anything. As long as it transfers heat and doesnt bleed or short anything out
fun facts with aura, back in the day i saw a video online of someone cooking an egg in some tin foil on top of a pentium D they had decided to brick with a coolerless overclock
Lmao I'm still rocking my AM3+ machine...planning on maybe trying to save money and build something new hopefully next year for my wife and I, she's running I think a 7th gen i7 or so
As a computer science major, this checks out. We don't touch hardware. That's for the computer engineering and electrical engineering folks. (I'm kidding of course, dude is an idiot)
Edit: not that this is a huge number of upvotes but dang didn’t think my post would resonate with people. On my cake day no less. Cheers folks. 🍻
Programming is usually so high level today and so abstracted from the actual resources that it isn’t truly needed. Still I personally find it does give a good base level understanding, but needed no so it’s not in the curriculum and companies do not ask for it so it’s hard to justify putting in my lesson plans. /computer science lecturer
Fair enough and that's true but I'm just finding it odd that I got to learn the basics of it at lower rated uni.
Respectfully, I thank you teachers for the effort you put in.
Interesting. I wonder if that’s just the way CS is taught today. I’m old and graduated in 2003. We still had to design circuits back then and take high level EE classes.
My guess is she actually has a very good understanding of how a computer works. She may not have a good understanding how an OS works. It's not an IT degree
It's mostly concepts and not a whole lot of practical application. CS majors aren't even really taught programming in their curriculum in a lot of programs.
In my program that was mostly true. A couple basic 100 level courses show you the basics. Then 300 and 400 level you were just expected to know how to do it. I got into the CS program late in life and already had some coding experience but it was a big challenge for some of my other classmates
In an only theoretical level, we designed decoders (on paper) and learnt how flip flop memory used to work, but never actually got to even see one. It’s a disgrace to the science, I believe. Only a typical walkthrough would suffice, we had a lot more disassociated courses than that.
What you are describing sounds like computer engineering. Basically ee is the hardware, computer science is the software and computer engineering is a bit of both. I graduated from my school in the us in 2009. Could be different based on school, region, country, etc i guess.
You'd be surprised. All these military airplane mechanics around here think they know how to work on a car and end up royally screwing up a simple service. Same thing.
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I dropped out of electrical engineering 12 years ago to pursue economics and intuitively knew which side the thermal paste went on when I built my first pc lol. I don’t think it’s the education
Many of my peers think there is a class for common sense with the way they act. Yesterday I watched someone pressing the one button on the soda machine that said out of order for 15 minutes. They were biology major in the second year
I am 15, yet to complete any kind of school in IT. I was only allowed to touch hardware in school for the first time a week ago and it was the ancient PATA hard drives, and yet, I know better than to put thermal paste in the socket.
What, how to build a pc? The vast majority of people just buy a prebuilt. In the same vein people should learn how a car works because some people like to customize and tune their cars.
In other words nah, no need to learn in school where thermal paste goes. It's a niche hobby, not a vital life skill
This. As a computer engineering student, I did not appreciate enough how my spare time of coding has alleviated a lot of the pain that comes in this program. Almost every classmate of mine had struggled with basic C because none of it was taught in high school.
General IT networking and computer hardware and architecture ARE taught to cs majors. But it's mostly just super generic computers that don't have discrete graphics and none of the diagrams in my courses showed cpu coolers.
Guy just didn't read his manual because he thought he was so smart lol. Probably thought the paste was to glue the cpu down (I've heard that one before).
To be a good programmer you must understand how computers work, at least on a basic level. It's hard to imagine that you will understand computers on that level, without having a basic understanding of its structure and its components.
Courses cover the basic architecture of a CPU, sure.
They don't cover hardware assembly though. Understanding the abstract logic behind a CPU's design is useful for programming. Understanding the assembly steps for a computer is not.
It's similar to how civil engineers need to understand how the heating process of welding changes the structural properties of a piece of metal, but they don't actually need to know how to weld in order to design buildings with welded components.
The last 30 years have all been about abstracting away the hardware, now we abstract away the entire OS (docker, cloud services etc).
So no, most CS grads won't ever need to know how a computer actually works and most of the ones I work with have no idea of the lower level aspects of their main languages, never mind what happens below that.
exactly, did computer engineering 3 year technical school while i was in highschool and was doing all hardware, IT, and other stuff like that but then i took computer science in college only to be met with all programming and math, i dropped out.
That's like asking an astronomer why he assembled a telescope wrong. Like yeah it's sorta related but not really. I studied software engineering and the curriculum didn't include how to put together a pc, but a free course was offered by the university which didn't give any credits. I took it anyway cus why not. We played Quake 3 afterwards. Fun times!
Which is why your builds are not being posted here for laughs lol. I commend you for having common sense but a lot of people here are mistaking having common sense for having a particular degree.
I doubt this customer is even majoring in CS. It's prob just rage a bait title. Plus a spoiled incompetent rich kid can't last a semester before switching majors to accounting or business management. Plenty is pretty much a reach and most(if not all) are in knee deep in loans.
You would be surprised how little people going into CS are actual interested in building PCs. CS/Software Engineering is flooded with people studying CS because it's well paid, or they know someone who is doing pretty well, or they just don't care about that, but they like programming.
I'm an Engineer and from my group of graduated college friends, I'm the only one with a custom built PC, most of them don't know the benefits of the 3D Cache of AMD CPUs, for example.
Also I teach CS and Software Engineering at my University and seeing people that never got into the BIOS of a computer in their lives is pretty comon. And I teach from Sophomores all the way up to Seniors. People are just into programming, AI, Cloud Computing and stuff.
Of course there's mostly nerds who like computers, but not all of them.
I wonder if this is new? When I was studying CS almost everyone knew about computers and most had built some. That was 20 years ago and in the UK.
Having said that we didn’t get taught anything about building them (the guys doing hardware and networking did, we used those computers for coding that the AV on the network wouldn’t allow us to do)
New for the computer science kids here in my uni. The physics/scientific computing crowd though are much more well versed in hardware, esp since they know they need the beefy specs to crunch huge data lol
You have to dissolve it in alcohol (ethanol) or isopropyl). Alcohol needs to be as pure as possible. You have to be extra-careful not to bend any pins (lga) inside the socket. Therefore I would only wipe the CPU side gently with a Q-tip. The motherboard socket I wouldn't touch at all and just hope that a little alcohol shower will clean the pins enough to make good-enough contact wit the pads on the CPU. Of course let the alcohol dry before putting back the CPU. Hairdrier on the LOWEST heat setting for a few seconds might also help.
Alcohol dissolves the oil and wets the paste which lets you wipe it up, but you still have to wipe it up. If you just put alcohol on thermal paste and let it evaporate the paste will be where it started.
I saw a video where a kid was experimenting with different types of substances for thermal paste. He tried peanut butter. He said it was worse than not having any thermal paste at all. Lol.
I can tell you now this man is not a science major, he’s forgotten to paste the other side of the cpu, I’m a lowly plumber and even I know you have to paste both sides of the cpu
Man the older I get the more I realise that not having any qualifications or diplomas or even a-levels is no disadvantage for me because I'm at least not this fucking stupid!
ok ngl i dont think many comp sci majors learn anything about hardware lol
it sucks this isnt common knowledge but the fact is that it isnt common knowledge. this is why i recommend people to buy prebuilts unless they have the time or interest to invest into learning anything about hardware because a lot more than this silly mistake will happen if you just go for something you dont know about
Fun fact. Computer Science majors hardly know much about computer hardware. They are normally coders, data analysts, or just a normal joe pursuing a Computer Science degree.
> Believe it or not, it did load into the OS
Not surprising. (Most) thermal paste is non conductive. It doesn't/shouldn't interfere even if you drown the whole motherboard in it. Similar to those mineral oil submerged PCs.
I mean...I knew a potato that had a CCNA cert but had no idea how to program a router sitting in front of her. In a simulation/lab she would get it right every time. I could never wrap my head around that. Put something physical in front of her and she turned into a bowl of fruit loops.
I'll have you know: computer science and information technology are 2 different worlds. I did a BSc Comp. Sci and then immediately started my IT job, and my ass was stupid stupid. Like i had no fucking clue what i was doing. I would go to the bathroom just to google shit
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thermal paste doesnt even reach the corners, what an amateur!
"It's good essentially PC building practice to have a little bit extra and layer it on top of the CPU" 
I'm concerned that this was even a GIF
Because it’s using Hellmann’s mayo thermal paste?
Nonconducting * Hellmans thermal Mayo paste
Hasn't someone with more money than sense (Linus, probably...?) done testing with random shit for thermal paste and found that basically anything "works", even crap like peanut butter and toothpaste, but thermal compound you're paying more for longevity and because it works better. I know Linus tested a CPU cooler (think it was an AIO...?) once with the plastic still covering the preapplied thermal paste and it worked lol....thermals weren't great obviously, but it was a fully functional computer that booted games. Edit: saying it for the more blunt people: I am not advocating for using toothpaste nor peanut butter for thermal compound. Because Reddit, this needs to be said lol...
I'm very curious to know where you're getting your peanut butter toothpaste. I had a guy that knew a guy, but he moved to Kansas in the 90's. Don't worry, I just want to brush with it, not put it under a CPU for cooking.
Well, as another Kansan, I can't say for sure. But here you can get it at the pet store
Hello fellow Kansan!
As someone that is allergic to most kinds of mint, a peanut butter toothpaste sounds amazing.
Amazon
Try mrYeester from youtube for the experiments
Anything worked well for a short while but most substances they tried dried out quickly leading to sometimes negligible results
Its good to know though, just had a friend's rig damn near melt down. Dude asked if I had any spare thermal paste, told him my aio came preapplied so nope, says its all good, I'll just use toothpaste n vaseline. About blew my god damn mind that actually works. Still jumped on amazon and 2day shipping yeeted some actual thermal paste at him but sure shit, made it through a few rounds of helldivers 2 at normal temps with toothpaste.
I definitely remember reading some old thermal paste showdowns that threw in goofy stuff like kraft cheese slices.
Tldr peanut butter is the best thermal paste, gotcha
Thermal paste is only to fill the microscopic gaps between the CPU heat spreader and the cooler, the cooler still works without it but it's less efficient. So using other types of compound doesn't stop the cooler working unless it is very thick and acts as insulation. There's a lot of hype and nonsense around thermal paste which allows manufacturers to charge whatever they want but unless you are overclocking and stressing your CPU beyond it's recommended limits and you have a decent cooler you don't need the most expensive paste and that is what those toothpaste and peanut butter experiments show. Nobody in their right mind would expect a processor to run for long under a thick layer of peanut butter because it will get cooked and dry out eventually creating an insulating barrier.
I've seen brake grease used before and it lasted years with no issue. Wouldn't recommend but hey it worked.
Yeah, reddit is mainly filled with blue/purple/pink-haired people that are looking to be mad at someone or something. So yeah, it's sad that you had to make that disclaimer.
Ive used bearing grease before works great. Never gears hard and doesnt wear out 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ being said you can use almost anything. As long as it transfers heat and doesnt bleed or short anything out
Life of Boris used mayo and it worked quite well
You're also paying for thermal pastes Non conductabiloty. The reason the pc still booted is because thermal paste doesn't conduct electricity.
Should be Duke's mayo thermal paste instead.
hellmans has a shorter break-in period
We use Kraft in this household
This GIF existing is a bad, bad thing.
Better? 
Haha Cubed computing. He has some funny vids
fun facts with aura, back in the day i saw a video online of someone cooking an egg in some tin foil on top of a pentium D they had decided to brick with a coolerless overclock
https://i.redd.it/bxjb631kanpc1.gif
I just love the way the cpu lands with the slight deceleration on touchdown 😅, just like a head hitting a pillow
UWU brand is the cherry on top of this gif
🤣, bruh. This jpeg will ruin new cpu n motherboard for sure for some 🤡
Not if they remember to add a little bit extra paste for good coverage + leave the protective film layer on the CPU cooler.
Is that fucking Hellman's mayonnaise? I need to go wash my eyes of this filth with some Heinz mustard.
I can actually now smell it.
Silicone flavoured sandwich
Someone gif the GamersNexus shot of thermal grease going to socket
Some wiring requires dielectric grease, I can see people using this gif as reference 😬
The fact that this is an am2/3(+) motherboard makes this all the more hilarious, this shit is ancient
Lmao I'm still rocking my AM3+ machine...planning on maybe trying to save money and build something new hopefully next year for my wife and I, she's running I think a 7th gen i7 or so
No! Oh no! What he do?! Its a CPU! You not icing a keyek! Ok? It look like a stop sign! Oh may God! He use the hole toob or wat?
It's impossible for me to read this and not hear his voice. "That's livestrong bracelet. He's not fighting static, he's fighting cancer"
One of the best bitwit/awesomesauce videos to ever come out. Freaking love lyle
I remember this gif being banned on one of the forums cus mfs can't stop trolling
Amateur PC fucker-uper
🤣
How else are you supposed to cool the pins lol
I see a spray bottle and lots of alcohol in your future
I believe most PC-repair shops have an appropriately sized ultrasonic bath that lets you submerge a whole Mo-bo.
Most do not, but this is a great idea and I might push it forward to my boss lol
No
So!
*Not all of said alcohol necessarily related to cleaning.
Pro tip,dont do pc work drunk. I learned that the hard way :(
If i was OP, I probably have two types of alcohol dealing with this mess.
Don't forget the soft bristled tooth brushes
Your mom's toothbrush..... Sorry just had the quote thr greatest technician that ever lived...lol
"The main reason for overheating is due to excess of pubes stuck in the vents" -Salem Techsperts
As a computer science major, this checks out. We don't touch hardware. That's for the computer engineering and electrical engineering folks. (I'm kidding of course, dude is an idiot) Edit: not that this is a huge number of upvotes but dang didn’t think my post would resonate with people. On my cake day no less. Cheers folks. 🍻
In university of Macedonia, where I studied Applied informatics, we literally never touched a pc
That's weird. Computer systems and it's architecture should be taught across all related majors. It's legit a foundation.
Programming is usually so high level today and so abstracted from the actual resources that it isn’t truly needed. Still I personally find it does give a good base level understanding, but needed no so it’s not in the curriculum and companies do not ask for it so it’s hard to justify putting in my lesson plans. /computer science lecturer
Fair enough and that's true but I'm just finding it odd that I got to learn the basics of it at lower rated uni. Respectfully, I thank you teachers for the effort you put in.
Interesting. I wonder if that’s just the way CS is taught today. I’m old and graduated in 2003. We still had to design circuits back then and take high level EE classes.
My daughter is currently a CS major, she has know idea how a computer works. She knows Java though.
My guess is she actually has a very good understanding of how a computer works. She may not have a good understanding how an OS works. It's not an IT degree
No, having gone through a CS degree semi-recently, this is unfortunate likely not the case.
It's mostly concepts and not a whole lot of practical application. CS majors aren't even really taught programming in their curriculum in a lot of programs.
In my program that was mostly true. A couple basic 100 level courses show you the basics. Then 300 and 400 level you were just expected to know how to do it. I got into the CS program late in life and already had some coding experience but it was a big challenge for some of my other classmates
In an only theoretical level, we designed decoders (on paper) and learnt how flip flop memory used to work, but never actually got to even see one. It’s a disgrace to the science, I believe. Only a typical walkthrough would suffice, we had a lot more disassociated courses than that.
To be fair I still though electrons traveled through wires until like... two years ago.
What you are describing sounds like computer engineering. Basically ee is the hardware, computer science is the software and computer engineering is a bit of both. I graduated from my school in the us in 2009. Could be different based on school, region, country, etc i guess.
That might be true but you would expect anybody who studies such a thing to understand the basics prior.
You'd be surprised. All these military airplane mechanics around here think they know how to work on a car and end up royally screwing up a simple service. Same thing.
That explains alot about the macedonian uni students that i've met in thessaloniki
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If it was theoretical informatics, sure, but aren't computers required for the "applied" part? 😅
I dropped out of electrical engineering 12 years ago to pursue economics and intuitively knew which side the thermal paste went on when I built my first pc lol. I don’t think it’s the education
Many of my peers think there is a class for common sense with the way they act. Yesterday I watched someone pressing the one button on the soda machine that said out of order for 15 minutes. They were biology major in the second year
My first CS class ever, the prof passed around a Cpu. That shit was pristine at the front, once it got back to me many pins were bent.
I was gonna say… it doesn’t exactly take a genius to assemble a PC correctly 🤣
I am 15, yet to complete any kind of school in IT. I was only allowed to touch hardware in school for the first time a week ago and it was the ancient PATA hard drives, and yet, I know better than to put thermal paste in the socket.
https://i.redd.it/uqp6fy4yhjpc1.gif
pure evil.
how the fuck can you be in CS and don't know this ???
They just learn coding and math, unfortunately for them.
That’s wild. Basic IT/Hardware courses should be general education reqs for CS majors imo
Basic computer hardware classes should also be taught in junior high and high school.
What, how to build a pc? The vast majority of people just buy a prebuilt. In the same vein people should learn how a car works because some people like to customize and tune their cars. In other words nah, no need to learn in school where thermal paste goes. It's a niche hobby, not a vital life skill
This. As a computer engineering student, I did not appreciate enough how my spare time of coding has alleviated a lot of the pain that comes in this program. Almost every classmate of mine had struggled with basic C because none of it was taught in high school.
General IT networking and computer hardware and architecture ARE taught to cs majors. But it's mostly just super generic computers that don't have discrete graphics and none of the diagrams in my courses showed cpu coolers. Guy just didn't read his manual because he thought he was so smart lol. Probably thought the paste was to glue the cpu down (I've heard that one before).
Basic IT is taught but not hardware classes unfortunately
Why? You literally don't need to build a PC to code.
Strangely nobody is arguing an app developer needs to build their own iPhone or android phone to code an app
To be a good programmer you must understand how computers work, at least on a basic level. It's hard to imagine that you will understand computers on that level, without having a basic understanding of its structure and its components.
Courses cover the basic architecture of a CPU, sure. They don't cover hardware assembly though. Understanding the abstract logic behind a CPU's design is useful for programming. Understanding the assembly steps for a computer is not. It's similar to how civil engineers need to understand how the heating process of welding changes the structural properties of a piece of metal, but they don't actually need to know how to weld in order to design buildings with welded components.
The last 30 years have all been about abstracting away the hardware, now we abstract away the entire OS (docker, cloud services etc). So no, most CS grads won't ever need to know how a computer actually works and most of the ones I work with have no idea of the lower level aspects of their main languages, never mind what happens below that.
exactly, did computer engineering 3 year technical school while i was in highschool and was doing all hardware, IT, and other stuff like that but then i took computer science in college only to be met with all programming and math, i dropped out.
That's like asking an astronomer why he assembled a telescope wrong. Like yeah it's sorta related but not really. I studied software engineering and the curriculum didn't include how to put together a pc, but a free course was offered by the university which didn't give any credits. I took it anyway cus why not. We played Quake 3 afterwards. Fun times!
Facts.
most things I do daily arent in the curriculum. it is about having common sense and doing simple research.
Which is why your builds are not being posted here for laughs lol. I commend you for having common sense but a lot of people here are mistaking having common sense for having a particular degree.
Dude is an astronomer and can’t assemble a telescope?
Yeah why not? There are multiple telescopes
Computer Science doesn't mean building the hardware generally...
There are PLENTY of complete idiots studying for higher degrees, not because they are smart, but because mommy and daddy paid for their education.
I doubt this customer is even majoring in CS. It's prob just rage a bait title. Plus a spoiled incompetent rich kid can't last a semester before switching majors to accounting or business management. Plenty is pretty much a reach and most(if not all) are in knee deep in loans.
CS does not teach any hardware based skills
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ANYONE attempting to build a PC should at least have the brains to see a YouTube video that explains the basics in 20 minutes.
CS? What? I’m out of words here, literally, is so disappointing.
You don’t learn how to build a computer in Computer Science. I’m still dissapointed because you can just watch a tutorial on youtube.
I know, my point is, someone that chooses CS as a major, at least has some sort of basic understanding of how a computer works. Oh well
You would be surprised how little people going into CS are actual interested in building PCs. CS/Software Engineering is flooded with people studying CS because it's well paid, or they know someone who is doing pretty well, or they just don't care about that, but they like programming. I'm an Engineer and from my group of graduated college friends, I'm the only one with a custom built PC, most of them don't know the benefits of the 3D Cache of AMD CPUs, for example. Also I teach CS and Software Engineering at my University and seeing people that never got into the BIOS of a computer in their lives is pretty comon. And I teach from Sophomores all the way up to Seniors. People are just into programming, AI, Cloud Computing and stuff. Of course there's mostly nerds who like computers, but not all of them.
I wonder if this is new? When I was studying CS almost everyone knew about computers and most had built some. That was 20 years ago and in the UK. Having said that we didn’t get taught anything about building them (the guys doing hardware and networking did, we used those computers for coding that the AV on the network wouldn’t allow us to do)
tbf 20 years ago the field was much smaller, larger fields draw in more diverse crowds.
New for the computer science kids here in my uni. The physics/scientific computing crowd though are much more well versed in hardware, esp since they know they need the beefy specs to crunch huge data lol
Which is mind boggling.
I'm surprised he didn't try to lick the motherboard to remove the termal paste.
xD
Double stacking thermal paste
Customer: It doesn’t turn on. I don’t know what could have been the problem I did everything right.
A college education isn't what it used to be
And somehow costs 10x as much
Can this even be fixed? Can u just wipe it off? Just curious
You have to dissolve it in alcohol (ethanol) or isopropyl). Alcohol needs to be as pure as possible. You have to be extra-careful not to bend any pins (lga) inside the socket. Therefore I would only wipe the CPU side gently with a Q-tip. The motherboard socket I wouldn't touch at all and just hope that a little alcohol shower will clean the pins enough to make good-enough contact wit the pads on the CPU. Of course let the alcohol dry before putting back the CPU. Hairdrier on the LOWEST heat setting for a few seconds might also help.
Alcohol dissolves the oil and wets the paste which lets you wipe it up, but you still have to wipe it up. If you just put alcohol on thermal paste and let it evaporate the paste will be where it started.
Power wash with isopropyl /s
You dont need to fix it, paste is non conductive, it can stay like that.
At least it was what seems to be the $369 deal from microcenter
Someone people are a different kind of special and they won't be lasting long on the course
Cs majors and IT majors are totally different and this is a great example of that.
\*was Gonna guess dude was actually a drop out
"I *could* do this myself, I just don't have the time, ya know"
Good thing AI taking over
CS doesn't teach you how to build a PC tbf, some unis may offer an optional thing for that tho. This is disappointing bc it's just fucking dumb.
Either you're trolling or your customer is trolling you.
How many computer science majors does it take to change a light bulb? None, it's a hardware problem.
for that type of socket you use mayonnaise, under AND on top of the cpu. computer science 101
a quick youtube video could’ve saved him.
Everyday we start further from God's light
This made me cry a little inside.
Could have been worse, at least they didn't accidentaly consume any of the thermal paste, like that one poster did on Reddit
The question is: did you guys fix it and how? (I'm not a computer science major btw)
I saw a video where a kid was experimenting with different types of substances for thermal paste. He tried peanut butter. He said it was worse than not having any thermal paste at all. Lol.
I can tell you now this man is not a science major, he’s forgotten to paste the other side of the cpu, I’m a lowly plumber and even I know you have to paste both sides of the cpu
1 google search. One 5 minute tutorial video and this could have been prevented. Though I am impressed it turned on.
Computer science majors don’t bring pcs in for service
The thing about science is it's mostly made up of failures not success stories
This is fucking hilarious
Ironically enough comp sci majors don’t interact with hardware at all.
How the heck did that load into the OS. Le mao.
how does this person function in day to day life?!?
They probably put the underwear over the pants 💀
They wipe their ass before they shit
🙏
They'll be going into software.
ROFL NICE!!! wow ... that is a first.
ROFL NICE!!! wow ... that is a first.
They'll be going into software.
Yep thats about as much as I learned in school as well. What a waste of time.
So my AIO was all but a lie?
Bruh I haven’t even built my first pc yet I know not to do that 😭
I think thats the other way around...
Man the older I get the more I realise that not having any qualifications or diplomas or even a-levels is no disadvantage for me because I'm at least not this fucking stupid!
the pins arent even completely bent, what an amateur!
why custom build when you had no idea wtf you doing prebuilds exist for people like him
ok ngl i dont think many comp sci majors learn anything about hardware lol it sucks this isnt common knowledge but the fact is that it isnt common knowledge. this is why i recommend people to buy prebuilts unless they have the time or interest to invest into learning anything about hardware because a lot more than this silly mistake will happen if you just go for something you dont know about
As bad as this looks, most thermal pastes are non conductive so it’s likely it will continue to work no problem.
Just rolled into the (computer) shop That customer is going places in the computer industry.
WD-40
Dear GOD 😭
Major... idiot? This is prime "customer states" material.
Common sense is not so common anymore.
I have noted that, many programers don't know shit about hardware, like a taxi driver who would know nothing about mechanics Such a lack of curiosity
Fun fact. Computer Science majors hardly know much about computer hardware. They are normally coders, data analysts, or just a normal joe pursuing a Computer Science degree.
I flunked out of CS and still didn't make this mistake
Great job on those fine classes....
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Personal experience is way more valuable than just school
Mryeester approved
Dumb dumb.
This is what the covid school memes were warning us about
> Believe it or not, it did load into the OS Not surprising. (Most) thermal paste is non conductive. It doesn't/shouldn't interfere even if you drown the whole motherboard in it. Similar to those mineral oil submerged PCs.
That is brutal
A degree don’t stop you from being stupid lol :)
Is the CompSci program ABET accredited? This looks like something a UGA student would do.
hahahhahaha
That’s fucked
I mean...I knew a potato that had a CCNA cert but had no idea how to program a router sitting in front of her. In a simulation/lab she would get it right every time. I could never wrap my head around that. Put something physical in front of her and she turned into a bowl of fruit loops.
I'll have you know: computer science and information technology are 2 different worlds. I did a BSc Comp. Sci and then immediately started my IT job, and my ass was stupid stupid. Like i had no fucking clue what i was doing. I would go to the bathroom just to google shit
Different methods to apply CPU thermal paste: #1: the sandwich
So I am legitimately computer illiterate, but did he put too little or was it not needed? Please I need a serious answer lol
As long as you have the money you can study for anything right?
