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hello everyone!
i have put together and used my x600 with a 9800x3d and an oculink egpu for about two weeks now and everything is going absolutely perfect. i've been using an x47 as I ordered it before getting the mini pc and I wasn't sure whether or not I was going to use the original case or make a custom one. turns out I'm going to build a custom one since I would've had too much to cut out the old one to make sense, so I stuck with the orignal plan of replacing the x47 with an x53 since those extra mm's wouldn't bother me too much and temps would definitely enjoy it.
now to the actual question, this was my first amd cpu, my first modern cpu installation and overall my first cpu install in a couple of years, so I'm not too confident in my thermal paste game. I'm attaching the pictures I've taken of my thermal paste application when I removed the x47 and I'd like to know if there's something wrong with it or if it's fine, since it does look rather thin to me. also, the installation of the cooler wasn't that easy and I'm debating whether it was me, something wrong or just how it's suppoed to be.

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<blockquote data-quote="game9370" data-source="post: 291822" data-attributes="member: 36160">hello everyone!i have put together and used my x600 with a 9800x3d and an oculink egpu for about two weeks now and everything is going absolutely perfect. i've been using an x47 as I ordered it before getting the mini pc and I wasn't sure whether or not I was going to use the original case or make a custom one. turns out I'm going to build a custom one since I would've had too much to cut out the old one to make sense, so I stuck with the orignal plan of replacing the x47 with an x53 since those extra mm's wouldn't bother me too much and temps would definitely enjoy it.now to the actual question, this was my first amd cpu, my first modern cpu installation and overall my first cpu install in a couple of years, so I'm not too confident in my thermal paste game. I'm attaching the pictures I've taken of my thermal paste application when I removed the x47 and I'd like to know if there's something wrong with it or if it's fine, since it does look rather thin to me. also, the installation of the cooler wasn't that easy and I'm debating whether it was me, something wrong or just how it's suppoed to be.[MEDIA=imgur]a/Fhwcjn8[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="game9370, post: 291822, member: 36160"] hello everyone! i have put together and used my x600 with a 9800x3d and an oculink egpu for about two weeks now and everything is going absolutely perfect. i've been using an x47 as I ordered it before getting the mini pc and I wasn't sure whether or not I was going to use the original case or make a custom one. turns out I'm going to build a custom one since I would've had too much to cut out the old one to make sense, so I stuck with the orignal plan of replacing the x47 with an x53 since those extra mm's wouldn't bother me too much and temps would definitely enjoy it. now to the actual question, this was my first amd cpu, my first modern cpu installation and overall my first cpu install in a couple of years, so I'm not too confident in my thermal paste game. I'm attaching the pictures I've taken of my thermal paste application when I removed the x47 and I'd like to know if there's something wrong with it or if it's fine, since it does look rather thin to me. also, the installation of the cooler wasn't that easy and I'm debating whether it was me, something wrong or just how it's suppoed to be. [CENTER][MEDIA=imgur]a/Fhwcjn8[/MEDIA][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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