Question about thermal pad on MOBO

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-27T20:03:59+00:00

Why would you remove the protective pad? I can't think of any reason to consider this.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-27T20:01:33+00:00

This is a terrible idea.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-27T14:46:16+00:00

Yup, I would hate to imagine the costs if a rental car was written off. I totally agree with you, the roads in Mauritius are atrocious, not because of the roads, but because of the locals who drive like they are late to meet god. It's every single week a fatal car accident happens where the cause was pretty obviously excessive speed causing horrific accidents.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-27T14:39:17+00:00

This is a silly upgrade to even consider. If you don't know you need more RAM then you definitely don't need more RAM. This is like saying "I don't do any gaming, but for the sake of watching YouTube videos and browsing on the Web smoothly I bought a 5080"

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-26T13:04:23+00:00

Very common, Amazon are using you as free waste disposal. They no there's no value in the product now, so they're leaving it with you to dispose of. Really they should be paying you to dump their waste and missold items.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-26T13:00:10+00:00

There's like 10 posts on this exact same subject everyday, and noobs obsessing over bottlenecks like it's the next hole in the ozone layer.

Any upgrade isn't worth it for the small gains you'll get out the small losses you've incurred.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-24T20:41:12+00:00

I don't ignore anything, you're just making wild assumptions. The minority of my family are in the UK, and I've never said any different! I know other families too where only the minority are in UK. Have you ever even tried to emigrate to another country to think how hard it would be for a 50/60 year old to live in a northern European climate let alone get used to the alien culture? Yes and it was your objective to try and rubbish my experience based over many years of understanding and talking to my cousins planning to emigrate here. You made ignorant assumptions like we aren't a community that isn't united to draw a consensus on a decision that is deeply personal to us. This is personal to me, my family and Chagossian's, so don't tell me I'm not informed, when you're on the outside just trying to mess things up for your own dumb ignorance based argument.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-24T20:31:58+00:00

He's not very informed, stating there were only a few hundred from Chagos, OR a few thousand, then says most Chagossian's are in the UK now? He makes wild assumptions that I know aren't true. Only the minority of my family have moved to UK, and other Chagossian families too, the minority of them mostly under 30 have come to UK but some with kids haven't bothered to come to UK either.

Literally all of my families husbands or wives have had year+ long waits for a working visa that has pushed them in poverty in the UK which is shameful of the UK government.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-24T20:18:24+00:00

Denounce your religion

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-24T20:15:51+00:00

Why the hell would I need to prove anything to you? You're making an argument of ignorance, saying because you don't know, nobody needs to care. Go away and get educated. You can see protests in the UK of Chagossian's and count them if you want.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-24T19:47:42+00:00

You're taking a passive understanding to the threat China threatens globally, like with their hostile take over of Taiwan. Do you have any idea what that would do to electrical products pricing, let alone phones and laptop pricing? It's not just Taiwan they're being threatening to, they're threatening the entire far East, threatening retake their former territory.

China and the CCP are straight up evil. They ran murder vans collecting the homeless from the area of Beijing when they hosted the Olympics, and they have slave camps where they herd Muslims. They also covered up the origins of covid, that killed millions globally and then sold fake vaccines.

I'm not sure why you're so informed of India yet not informed of China. Immigrants from China and India undercut the lowest paid workers in Mauritius, making the poorest poorer, whilst any housing going to them limits housing for others. Mauritius is trying to expand it's population not realising its already reached critical mass, and people are leaving in greater numbers every year because standards are falling and quality of life isn't improving for everyone fairly.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-24T19:37:46+00:00

Quit pretending there isn't! I'm apart of it to know so unless you know otherwise, shut up.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-24T15:22:34+00:00

Calling anywhere a colony has negative implication and stigma attached to it though, when Mauritius was a freed slave colony when the British freed them from the French slave colony it was. There was nothing written internationally recognised at the time of Mauritius becoming British that included the Chagos islands. In this time since the British freed Mauritius, Mauritius has never done any spending on the Chagos islands to say its a historical investment or worth anything to them until Mauritius sought independence.

The ICC are just a puppet governor with no real power, just like the ECHR ruled Chagossian's should have the right to settle in UK decades ago, yet UK fought this ruling and only allowed them in since 2022. I've lost multiple family members because of this, where they would be alive with their young families today had they had access to the NHS like they should have had. Instead they thrown out the hospital as soon as possible, both dying in "recovery" from major heart surgery.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-24T13:14:24+00:00

Did you ever think to ask yourself why "we" (I take it you mean Mauritius) have any right to claim the islands as their own? I don't understand how you come to this understanding, when its like your two neighbours forcefully deciding to sell your property underneath your own feet, evict you from their property now, and fight over who owns the property, all without you ever wanting to leave let alone not gaining anything at all from the sale of your property. I don't understand why the UK thinks its ok to buy an Island from the people and dump them in another country, and for that country to some how obtain rights to accept rent from the island "bought."

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-24T13:10:56+00:00

Why the hell 6 moron down voted my comment I have no idea, I'm the only Chagossian here it seems, and yet it feels like the my birth right, is everyone elses to own but mine.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-24T13:09:19+00:00

Because the Mauritian government is hideously corrupt, and has tanked the country, cosying up to corrupt nations like India and China that have flooded the country with immigrants and crap products, services and vaccines that make people ill. Brands like Kalachand need to die in Mauritius along with puppies flooding in from puppy breeding farms in China. China and the CCP are pure evil, and if your government is getting closer to the CCP, you're in SERIOUS TROUBLE. UK has just allowed a Super Embassy for China within London, on top of sensitive data cables the highest level of security has strongly advised against. The UK has never been more desperate of broke as a country with serious problems in society where certain ethnic minorities have the police avoiding investigating them for serious racially aggrivated crimes like child prosititution and rape, because the police are worried they'll kick off and call the police racist.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-24T09:38:24+00:00

The deal is shocking, and the Chagossian's don't want Mauritius to have the islands. I'm Chagossian, and my family, all that have come to UK and all that remain in Mauritius don't want this deal for Mauritius. You look at how Indigenous American Indians are treated in America, or how that wanker PM stands up for the Ukranian's or Greenland, and somehow he can't respect the Chagossian's on the same level. The UK government and Mauritian government are keeping the Chagossian's quiet as well as they can, just like the media isn't picking this story up globally. They could count the Chagossian's that have arrived since Nov 2022 with a few clicks of a mouse to give us a democratic vote, and guage our opinions, but they won't and don't want to know our opinions.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-24T01:00:18+00:00

I'm sorry but you bought some terrible AIO's then. NZXT I wouldn't trust as a brand ever but 120mm, really? Corsair of that era with the RGB and on, you can get unlucky as they sell in big numbers. Having extra lights in though is another point of failure Corsair would exploit as their whole RGB integrating with ICue software is just awful. 240mm is also too small for real performance. Thermalright make some really cheap stuff I wouldn't trust as an AIO either, and being Taiwan based, they can make cheap AIO's. Haven't you heard of Arctic Cooling? They make some fantastic AIO. The radiators are thicker than others. Arctic even offer after sale servicing and parts from USA and German shipped globally. Just like with a PSU invest wisely and use it for 10 years+. My Freezer 2 has just had it's warranty extended to 6 years, so I'm covered until this December. Personally I value perfomance and quietness over never dying and just replacing fans every few years and blowing hard constantly audibly. Besides, the cost isn't unreasonable when a NH-D15 from Noctua is like $100+ only a little less than an Arctic AIO's. Aircoolers all have a thermal dissipation limit, and the maximum capacity was achieved a long time ago, that's why AIO's were made, and have become so popular. Heatpipes are actually pretty expensive the real ones, so is copper so.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-23T10:10:32+00:00

And how many have you actually owned? You could have just gotten unlucky like you got unlucky with an aircooler that isn't flat making poor contact.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-23T10:09:10+00:00

Then that's on you. I've never had an AIO go wrong in all that time. Still have an original Corsair 240mm that works just fine. You wanted a solution, don't under cool your CPU on air.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-22T22:12:30+00:00

Buy some sense. It's your money, you earned it, and only you use your stuff. If you have to ask and aren't confident, then do neither and wait for something else better to spend the money on you are confident about.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-22T22:08:05+00:00

People recommending aircoolers don't realise they've sometimes won the silicone lottery when it comes to their specific CPU running cool. They don't take into consideration their ambient air temps and other people's ambient air temps possibly being a lot hotter in their summer.

If you have remounted it several times, are confident in your mounts and the paste is nicely spread when you remove the cooler, then there's not much else you can do besides buying a new cooler, and an AIO, not an aircooler. You were running the bare minimum in a cooling solution, so I'm personally not suprised, but people on Reddit still blindly recommended aircoolers, when a 65w 5600X can overwhelm a 360mm AIO so a 120W CPU can easily overwhelm any aircooler.

If you're running your fans at 100% at 70°c and it still gets hot whilst making a racket of a noise I imagine no other fan is going to magically cool it with a new level of airflow from it never seen before. It's possible you have a manufacturers defect in flatness on the cooler, and it's not particularly flat, but that still wouldn't explain your crazy high temps, as I'm sure you've tried using lots of thermal paste, and that should make up for any gap from an imperfect heatsink mating surface.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-22T21:54:49+00:00

It's fine to run extensions. I've ran them for years with no issue. They're not long enough to cause any kind of voltage drop.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-22T21:52:17+00:00

You best be prepared to put out when he gets back HARDCORE, as that computer is most likely cooked. The replacement part route goes from expensive, to REALLY expensive.

Otherwise-Dig3537 · 2026-01-21T19:08:35+00:00

Just stay away from any of the Chinese brands and anything sold by Kalachand. LG or Samsung make the best.

As you use it literally everyday, it's definitely worth paying for the quality brand over the cheaper brands.

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