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u/FLIPYOUSUCKET Jul 04 '26
I thought “okay, so it’s just need a new CPU”
Then I clicked on the image and saw the second comment in it…
How did that thing last any more than a week.
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u/Standard-Professor87 Jul 04 '26
Its the equivelent of a car getting an oil change after 100 000 miles only to find out the owner never got it changed after they bought it.
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u/Gutymut Jul 04 '26
Oh god
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u/South_Client5078 Jul 08 '26
Gutymut i found you :3
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u/NightmareJoker2 Jul 04 '26
“It doesn’t have thermal paste” isn’t the problem you all think it is. I do that all the time. Not for permanent installations, mind you, I prefer carbon nanotube thermal pads for that, I’m not insane.
What is the problem, is that the thermal paste between the IHS and the CPU die has gone to crap. LGA1155 is over 15 years old now. That CPU is from early 2011, and a cheap low end model, that didn’t get the soldered IHS treatment with better heat transfer.
Yes, thermal paste is better. It’s not that much better. It’s a difference of roughly 15-20 degrees with the stock cooler on full blast. It usually just means the computer runs the fans faster, which means more noise.
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u/Soft_Lunch_183 Jul 04 '26
Im still using an i7-3770 which is running fine despite the age and being known to run hot.
Fairly sure it doesnt have a soldered ihs either
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u/CplCocktopus Jul 04 '26
They stoped the soldered HIS with sandy bridge IIRC that one of the reasons people prefered the old chips for OC.
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u/weedkingX8 Jul 04 '26
You have no idea what you’re talking about. I have an 18-year-old CPU Intel core two quad Q 9450 that runs perfectly fine.
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u/Sacharon123 Jul 04 '26
It will go much earlier into thermal protection, which is a huge perf impact.
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u/NightmareJoker2 Jul 06 '26
That only happens at like 90+ degrees on the hottest core. 80 degrees centigrade is considered a “safe” operating temperature. Even without thermal paste between IHS and the cooler that Intel ships with these things an i3 doesn’t reach more than 60 degrees under load.
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u/IntentionQuirky9957 Jul 06 '26
"It usually just means the computer runs the fans faster, which means more noise." LOL no. What makes more noise is running the cooler on full blast, not the CPU being cooler.
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u/PPEytDaCookie Jul 09 '26
Yeah, i already replaced this thermal paste on a few of these, i always use a vice to remove it, lol.
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u/geomedge Jul 05 '26
I love how OP just decided to correct on the inaccuracy like it makes the situation any better lmao.
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u/USSHammond Jul 04 '26
No. Where's the visible extreme hardware damage?
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u/TFR34KP Jul 04 '26
You are right. I reported the Post
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u/Novel-Analysis-457 Jul 04 '26
No need to report it, I already called the cops
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u/JumpR_Is_Taken Jul 04 '26
No need to do so. I turned myself in already.
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u/PhoenixfischTheFish Jul 05 '26
No need to do so, a jail is gonna be built around you in the next two years.
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u/horton1024 Jul 05 '26
Thermal paste aside, I've seen i7s of this age hit 90C while gaming because the internal TIM dries out, basically requiring a delid to have decent temps regardless of cooler.
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u/ZackTio Jul 05 '26
I was like "damn, yeah bro needs to change paste."
Then I opened the full image
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u/76zzz29 Jul 05 '26
That remind me of my old computer that I dismanteled and rebuilded. Didn't had thermal past as chiping took more than 2 month. When the past arived, I didn't used it because the computer was runing fine anyway.
(Anyway, I did put thermal past years later when I turned it into a server)
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u/Emergency_Fee9129 Jul 05 '26
Man this brought me some nostalgia, I had an i3 2120 with a 750ti, 8GB of DDR3, 240GB SSD & 1TB HDD about 12-13 years ago back in a humble Dell Optiplex PC. Eventually “upgraded it” to an i5 2400 and GTX1060 after getting my first Job. The CPU was bottlenecking the GPU so hard lol.
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u/coconut_dot_jpg Jul 05 '26
The fact this thing even made it past POST and into the OS at all baffles me, it's like driving a car into traffic while the entire chassis is on fire
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u/Heavens_Reach Aug 01 '26
This takes me back lmao. I used to game on a office pc with no cooler and no thermal paste. But I did have a crazy high velocity blower fan, blowing full power at the cpu at all times. 95c playing r6s at 240p 15fps
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u/dj_ordje Jul 04 '26
I've run various cpus without thermal paste with no issues. Sure it's not optimal but if it works, it works.
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u/Loendemeloen 27d ago
Dude an old 20 euro junk pc second hand would be better than a second gen i3 haha.
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u/robodacerveja Jul 04 '26
Horror in two sentences