Thermal Paste

Hey all, I haven't been here for a while. I recently purchased my friend's old i7 4770 (non-K) off of him to pop in my PC just as a small update. I installed it tonight with the stock cooler (don't have any other ones) and I just hit 99c while playing Apex Legends for a duration of 5 minutes...

I watched a YouTube video watching a guy replace it on the same laptop as mine but I still doubt my ability to change it without messing something up. Should I pay the £70 required(including the materials required + the man's work) to change it or do it myself?

Hello folks! While i was reseating my cpu for cleaning my mobo from dust i've noticed that it has some bent pins but my pc working fine (dual channel ram + pci e working full speed) so my question is what else this bent pins can make something not working properly other than i mentioned here...

I recently just got an AIO liquid cooled to replace my Hyper T2, and I have to remove the old thermal paste. I found this bottle in my bathroom cupboard labelled "Rubbing Alcohol Compound" so I'm not entirely sure if it's like rubbing alcohol and safe to use on my CPU. Here's some pictures of...

So here is my story : Today I applied new thermal paste for the 1st time on my CPU. I was kind of anxious about doing this but everything went well until one point. Some of the old thermal paste that I was trying to remove had built up next to the big metal cover and kind of touched under the...

Hello, so I have the following specs Intel i5 6500 4mb cache 3.20ghz up to 3.60 H110m gigabyte ultra durable motherboard 16gb ram 680w psu Amd RX 480 8gb vram Its a barely 3 year old pc, so I decided to finally open it up and clean dust( for my suprise there werent any almost) amd to...

I currently have a Z270-Gaming K3 Motherboard which seems to be incompatible with an Intel i7 8700 processor. I'd like to get the 8700 sometime soon so that my PC is up to scratch for Ray Tracing requirements. I'd also need a suitable heatsink to fit the 8700 too as I'm unsure if the one on my...

Hello! I recently reapplied the thermal paste for my GPU (Zotac GTX 1080 Ti AMP! Extreme) and have noticed a multitude of problems since. Firstly, the fans on the card aren't spinning, well sort of and I'll say why in a second (even putting them on 100% in MSI Afterburner doesn't do anything.)...

Hello I'm from Peru - South America, I just bought a ryzen 5 2600 and I know it has thermal paste applied to the cooler, I have not taken it out of the box, but I'm worried about the durability of the thermal paste, can it be damaged by too much heat or cold?

Hi, Has any got any idea why my system is running so hot when playing games like World of Tanks? During games the CPU reaches >80 C. I have no idea as to why as WoT isn't using much of the CPU at all. Specs: AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz (no OC) AMD R9 270X MSI 4G 12GB DDR3 1600MHz MSI 970 Gaming...

I am looking for a good site for comparing different GPUs on different games. I remember finding one about a year ago but can't find anything similar now. Can you guys link me a few sites that compare the different GPUs?

Say I want to make a secure connection like this: [pc]---cable----->[internet]---cable------>[device without software] How can I do it? The device is a specialized hardware part in a private network. It cannot run any software. I think I would need a router device with...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128700R&cm_re=gigabyte_z97x-_-13-128-700R-_-Product If not what is for the 200-250 price range?

Does anyone know of any tools that can be used to monitor network bandwidth usage including what type of sites are being visited or what is being downloaded? I know that you can use a third party firmware like DD-WRT to monitor the amount on certain routers but does anyone know of anything...