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while but Techquickie is striking back with episode 5 of avoiding common PC

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building traps which will hopefully save you from disaster even more effectively

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than a dead tauntaun or that now-infamous video with the lid strong

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anti-static wrist strap speaking of which let's tackle one thing those folks

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were roundly criticized for using too much thermal paste now although there's

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a fairly widespread belief that using too much thermal goop will have a

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catastrophic effect on cooling performance the truth is that unless you

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go really overboard it actually won't be

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too different from what you'd see with a proper amount of thermal paste that is

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as long as you install the cooler on top correctly with suitable mounting

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pressure your heatsink should simply force any excess goo to flow out the

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sides but we're not saying that's not a

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problem any extra thermal paste that gets on to the motherboard or stuck in

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the CPU socket can wind up shorting it

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out some thermal compounds are both non

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conductive and non capacitive so they

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shouldn't damage anything but many others contain metal to assist in heat

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transfer and are electrically conductive or capacitive and besides even if you

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use a non conductive thermal paste let's say containing a material such as

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ceramic leaving your build looking like you burst a tube of toothpaste on it

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it's just really bad form and thermal paste tends to be quite difficult to

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clean up so remember in most situations a grain of rice two pea-sized amount is

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all you need and if you're ever unsure many manufacturers actually provide

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guidance for this as well speaking of avoiding electrical shorts it's a good

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practice to build upgrade or repair your PC on an anti-static surface especially

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if you're doing your building in a dry environment this doesn't have to be

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anything fancy though and a wooden tabletop or even a cardboard box like

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the one that your motherboard came in should do you fine if you're still

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concerned though you can improve your static management in a number of ways

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for your tabletop you can get anti-static mats that clip to a metal

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ground such as the grill on your plugged in but powered off power supply and for

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your person you can get anti-static wrist straps just slip it on and clip

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the end of it to your plugged in but powered off of course power supply this

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along with common-sense things like not working on a carpet and touching metal

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now and then to discharge any static build-up is enough for most people if

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you're in a professional environment though and you want to take it to the next level you may also want to consider

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anti-static flooring that is grounded to a nearby electrical outlet tip number

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three never actually used to be a problem but these days it's not uncommon

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to get a nasty shock after spending a ton of money on a CPU and motherboard

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only to find out your brand-new system won't boot you see sometimes a newer

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generation of processor will actually use the same motherboard socket as the

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previous generation but may require a UEFI BIOS or firmware update in order to

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communicate properly so be sure to check specifically what CPU generations any

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motherboard you're interested in buying supports and which firmware version is

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required if you do end up needing to flash the BIOS to get your new processor

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working some boards may actually require you to have the older gender on hand in

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order to perform the update so if you run into this make sure you ask a friend

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or the techs at the store to get you jump-started so to speak some

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manufacturers have worked around this however by including a feature on their

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motherboards that allows you to update the BIOS with a USB Drive and no CPU

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installed pretty clutch while we're on the subject of CPUs for the love of all

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that is holy don't push down on them

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when you're installing them processors from both AMD and Intel are designed to

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gently drop into the socket with only

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gravity to aid them there is no force necessary on the user's part as the

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retention ARM beside the socket will hold the CPU in for you on LGA sockets

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where the pins are on the motherboard pushing down on the CPU can bend them

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and they are very difficult to repair and as for more traditional PGA sockets

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where the pins are on the CPU well actually if it's aligned correctly

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pushing down won't hurt it the issue is that if it's not aligned correctly then

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you can absolutely mangle your CPUs pins rendering it inoperable finally here's

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something important about a different connector yeah I'm not two slot although

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many people associate MDOT too with superfast NVMe SSDs that use your

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computer's PCI Express interface much faster than SATA m dot 2 is really just

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a type of physical connector and MDOT two drives that use the SATA interface

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also exist so if you really want that extra storage speed you need to pay

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close attention to both the compatibility of your system and to the

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drive that you're shopping for because you don't want to pull the trigger on what you think is a super good deal only

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to find out that it's not any faster than your old SATA SSD from five years

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ago so do you guys have any tips that you haven't seen us mention yet if you

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do share them with the community down in the comment section and stay tuned for

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episode 6 of avoiding common PC building

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traps now with more Ewoks or not we

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