Computer building, I am

[Lasherž]

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That application doesn't look too bad to me. With chillers the main concern is the downforce. If you've got a bracket on the back you can get enough pressure without damaging anything that most well known pastes will spread out evenly out of pressure alone. The best example of when that's not a good method is something like the intel included coolers. AMDs as far as I know clamp pretty good. Another example of poor clamping leading to poor thermal grease spread is the PS4. A friend of mine had one that was running loud. I took it apart and applied some quality grease and the problem got worse. The issue was the crappy bent metal tensioner isn't strong enough to thin the paste so I had to do it myself with a gift card. Ordinarily you don't need to go that far, but so long as there's no spots missed between the center and the outer edge of the spread you're not hurting anything by spreading it yourself.

 

[Lasherž]

You see how there's a lot of gaps? Like the paste sort of looks wavy, there's gaps where copper is showing. Idk if it's supposed to be like that, or not. You tell me, I'm a noob.

Those aren't gaps that you're talking about, the two pieces fit together and where there's bare copper on one there's grease and vice versa there's bare nickel on the other where there's grease on the copper. The only places I see copper gaps is the corners. Probably some more time, a stress test, and maybe a little extra tension would help it spread the rest of the way.. Spread it yourself to the corners if not. The x pattern is valid for big fat chips like ryzens.

 

[Lasherž]

Like this pic, you can see the think layer of paste on the bottom of the copper sort of coming over the edge, that's the thickest part. It's easier to see with the ***** eye, but you can see the "role" there, where it's kind of curved.

Completely normal and fine. Tbh as thermal paste goes I think all beginners overthink it. When I first started building I wanted to research the best compounds, the best application method, but pretty much anything works fine so long as you don't majorly ignore advice that's universally available on google. The differences in the popular methods are solely going to result in one or two degrees and mainly just a difference in how much goop you waste each application.



That's probably the best video I've ever seen on the matter and it does a pretty good job of summing up the hoopla too lol.

 

[Lasherž]

Does running bios take more processing power than just looking at your desktop menu? Because my motherboad bios temps read higher than what my program does when I'm logged into windows, I mean by like 5 degrees C

Yes. Not much by that system's standards, but the UEFI is very easy for a system. Any temperature below 50 is fine idle imo. The more important value though is stress testing temperature. If you run AIDA64 stress test and you get past 90 degrees you've got issues. That might be the cooler isn't equipped to handle the wattage, or maybe the grease wasn't applied properly. Regardless, cpus are very good at protecting themselves. AIDA64 is great because it shows you when the CPU is throttling. If you can avoid that during a stress test you're golden.

 

[Lasherž]

Anybody have monitor recommendations? Looking for a 1440p monitor, maybe a 2k? Not a 4k though, I don't think I'll ever use that.

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This is what I use. At least during this computer's generation I feel like it's the sweet spot for performance and visuals right now. The price is often lower than 900. I got mine for 700 but I bought it on a whim. Could probably do better if you're patient. There's also a few versions of it that are comparable. I'm a sucker for IPS displays. I'll gladly give up dark black for vivid brights and great viewing angles, especially on an ultrawide. The curve isn't enough to make up for the viewing angle change when it's a couple feet from your eyes so it's something to consider when shopping through panel types.

 

[Lasherž]

Windows updates turned itself on and already downloaded an update now I'm occasionally seeing purple lines in my video, thanks guys! It may be my TV but literally as soon as the updates installed then my TV starts messing up, for the first time, ever. What are you doing to people's electronics, IBM? oops, I mean Microsoft genitals? Oops, I mean Bill Gate's wife is fugly. Wait I forgot where I was going.

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Stuff like that is often the plug, cable, or video card. You can always roll back the driver and see, but make sure you're covering your bases on whether the port on the TV is functional with other devices and whether the cable is damaged and plugged in properly. Analog connectors were especially bad with that. I remember my old monitor (VGA CRT Sony Trinitron) would sometimes get loose and I'd only see the blues and it'd freak me out lol.

 

[Lasherž]

I run 32gb of memory right now and in the next build will be going up to 64gb most likely. Glad that program worked. Even got my dad to look into it and said the same things that it was slick as hell and he liked it.

Glad I could help and anything else you need you know I'll try to help if I can!

I'll probably do the same exact thing, but honestly 32gb has served me well in this computer. I've been running without a pagefile for 4 years. I received an error from it once, but it was because copied text from a notepad file I didn't realize at the time was 28gb of text. Have you noticed any games that actually use more than or close to 32gb?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

How strongly would you guys recommend I run a data hard drive and keep my programs on the boot drive?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I was thinking of getting a Samsung pcie 3.0 2 tb it so for data to go in my second slot. What’s your opinion?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

The pcie 4.0 Corsair 2 Tb is $340

 

[Firewalker]

I always have one drive for Boot OS, Virus, VPN and stuff for required for the OS. I use a 2nd and many other drives for gaming and other programs. Never keep them all on one hard drive if you can. That is asking for issues if something ends up corrupted. I've just hooked up my 2nd drive many times and then run that programs scan program for errors and it will then work without having to reinstall or redownload the program/game. I've done that on ubisoft, steam and Blizz games many times. I have 5 or 6 hard drives in here right now.

No I haven't seen a game use that many gb while running. But even with 32gb of DDR 3200 I've seen a couple games use around 8-14gb like Cyberpunk 2077 with it running full boar with everything maxed a couple times.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I'm just doing a bunch of memory bc I keep so much stuff open, like I'll have 15 web browers and several 3d design programs open and spreadsheets and I just want to have it all said and done and not worry about it.

I wonder how difficult it's going to be to use a second ssd to auto-save files

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I dropped a bunch of $$$ on a second m2 nvme corsair 2 tb ssd for my data. Hopefully I can get it set up where I have all my program files on the 1tb C drive and get the 2 tb to save all of my data. I plan to use this computer for years and years so I wanted plenty of space. I have like 850 3d files and like 5500 pictures, doesn't take up that much room. Also have 12 gb of music. Just want to breathe and never worry about too much data. I'd love some thoughts on the best way to setup directing save files to what I assume will be my D drive (second ssd).

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

I feel ya. I am struggling with my main OS SSD and my 3 1TB backup drives. I just about filled up my "Games" drive last night with Far Cry 5. Movies and Music take up my other two drives. Time to upgrade to 2TB drives lol.

 

[Firewalker]

I am running around 8-10tb of drives depending on what I take in and out of the case, and I still don't have enough room,lol. I still have a new in box 2tb Seagate 256mb 2.5" SSD/HD Hybrid drive that I am going to put in with the new build later on this year. Along with PCI 4.0 SSD drives as well on the 11th gen Intel when they come out.