i still have my old h100? h110? watercooler probably should replace it..

H-something-or-other, the one that has the RGB waterblock

the old corsair h100's

non rgb

Oh

but ive been watching my temps and haven't seen a spike telling me the pump or water is bad

also depending on you. you'd change the paste every 1-3 months

What’s the lifetime of the unit, I can’t imagine that it’s as long as CPUs generally last.

id say get a cpu temp viewer program and just keep eye on it

watch your idle temps and slight rise would mean you'd probably need to blow out the fans/replace thermal

Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff I’m going to have to look at getting software-wise.

do you have thermal paste on hand?

I do not, no. I had a tech shop in the city build my PC, my father managed to convince me that they’d have thermal paste.

theres a program called core temp

That being said, my father is in his late 40s/early 50s and built computers when GPUs couldn’t snap the PCIe slots off.

atm my cpu is at 30cish doing minor websurfing etc

https://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

Yeah, just above summer room temp should be idle

but if i were you id just buy a stick of arctic mx-4 off amazon

Thanks for the advice

it's carbon based so it won't fry your shit if you apply to much by accident

You’re only supposed to apply as much as a dot, right?

theres different ways you could go by doing it

some do a small X on the cpu i just do a pea size dot right in the middle

the heat/pressure of the heatsink will spread it for you

Yeah, JayzTwoCents made a point that if you spread it our before applying the heatsink that you were more likely to get air that would disrupt heat transfer trapped in there

well ive had this cpu for about 5 years

my temps have always been in the 30s or below at idle

at true idle id probably be at 27-28

My father has had his for pretty near a decade; it’s an old Phenom II 6X

i had a phenom ll 98something

the late 900 series

It’s old AMD junk, that’s what it is

I’m sorry, but outside of TF2, I am firmly on Team Blue

the cake is a lie

...

No

I refuse

CAKE IS NEVER A LIE

just wait till that spy backstabs you

I MUST HAVE MY CAKE