glue

I am in the process of restoring an old PC, and it's functioning well. Currently, my main task is to upgrade the HDD to an SSD. However, when I opened it up, I discovered that it is extremely dirty, with a significant amount of dust on all the components. While the PC continues to work fine, I...

Unfortunately I lost the 2 tiny screws that hold my motherboard's NVMe heatsink in place. I plan on getting a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD which doesn't come with a heatsink. Will the glue from the thermal pad of the mobo's heat sink be enough to hold it onto the SSD?

Ok so I bought this Third-party cooler to install on a LGA 1200 CPU. My motherboard is a mATX Gigabyte H410mH V3. I installed the mounting brackets and the pins when I tried to clasp the cooler to the bracket, a small little brick(Voltage regulator?) on the motherboard was taking up the space...

Dear forum I have covered my USB-port on my stationary PC with duct tape, to protect it from damage, dust, dirt etc. (The port is horisontal) When I removed the duct tape last time, I saw that some of the glue has gotten stuck around the USB port. Now I fear, that some of the glue has gotten...

My theories: Some glue-like viscous substance to eliminate cross talk. Something thermal/temp related? Other, something for optimization Something that was used during creation of the CPU and was left behind during manufacturing Other's theories: Obfuscation/censoring for the Chinese press...

Currently, I have 2 of these Corsair Vengeance AirFlow Fans in my house just sitting around collecting dust: https://www.newegg.com/corsair-cmyaf-fans/p/N82E16835181059?Description=corsair%20airflow%20vengeance&cm_re=corsair_airflow_vengeance-_-35-181-059-_-Product I just got this new idea...

HI all, I know this is a stupid question, but why do we need thermal glue between the cpu and heatsink? the bottom of the heatsink is flat and so is the cpu. why not just put the HSF directly on the cpu?

Hello, I was wondering what would be a good, and cheap CPU cooler/fan to use with a PC configuration consisting of an AMD RX 470, an AMD FX-8350, and the Corsair RM550x 80 Plus Gold PSU, all housed in the DIYPC Solo-T1-BK ATX Mid Tower Case. If I've listed any incompatibilities, please let me know.

I have been looking at the Samsung 850 EVO 500GB for some time but I'm not sure whether it is worth it if I have a SATA2 motherboard. My HDD results from CrystalDiskMark4 say the write speed is 110.2MB/s and the read speed is 113.6MB/s. Is it worth getting it or should I get a new motherboard...

So my cousin gave me $200.00 to buy him the best video card I can. We built him his PC in 2011 so my concern is buying a card that will not be bottlenecked by his MB or Processor. His processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 6-Core 3.3GHz...