Yesterday I bought a new power supply,and in order to install it,I had to remove my huge heatsink. I hate dust so I cleaned it up...I then saw the CPU and noticed a patch of grey stuff...I thought it was dust so i swiftly cleaned it with paper towel, put on the heatsink, and put everything back together
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Oblivious to what I just did, I turned on my computer and used it for about 2 hours. I had a small hint in my head that cleaning that dust was tougher than usual so I curiously googled grey subtance chip and found out what I just did.
Tomorrow I'm getting my computer serviced to get the paste reapplied, but I'm curious as to if lucky that my CPU lasted 2 hours, or if my CPU is doomed to fail now...
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Oblivious to what I just did, I turned on my computer and used it for about 2 hours. I had a small hint in my head that cleaning that dust was tougher than usual so I curiously googled grey subtance chip and found out what I just did.
Tomorrow I'm getting my computer serviced to get the paste reapplied, but I'm curious as to if lucky that my CPU lasted 2 hours, or if my CPU is doomed to fail now...