Cooling Paste

Hello, recently my brother replaced the cooling paste on my laptop (Without me knowing). Afterwards ive noticed that my cpu is warmer then before. My guess is that the cooling paste was applied incorrectly.. I've never tried fixing something like this before. Is this hard? I guess the...

I’ve got AMD Phenom II, an AVC fan (AV-Z7UH40Q001-2215), and MSI 890FXA-GD70 motherboard. Using MX-4 Arctic thermal paste. I’m aware these are old. Other components are a Sandisk SSD, XFX R series GPU, and Redline Mushkin 2x4GB RAM. Sorry this post is so long. A few months ago my fan stopped...

Hey, I just bought a Ryzen 7 2700X CPU, and I'm having some trouble with the cooling paste. First off, when I got the thing, there was an entire solid block of cooling paste on the heatsink - I don't really question these things, so I stuck it on the processor and wrestled with those weird loop...

I'm planing to buy a new ram for my desktop which has a H61M-CS mobo. The max ram frequency supported is 1600MHz by the mobo. I found few deals in Amazon for 8GB DDR3 RAMs by G.SKILL 1600Mhz & Fury X which has a 1866Mhz frequency, both costs same amount. But the Fury X looks good to me! but it...