The only real times where I have to stop and think is when plugging in the case components (like the power button). But many a times have I seen people put a heat sink on a processor with no thermal paste, thankfully sellers have gotten better with packaging to make it obvious so people don’t get hundreds of dollars of components now.
The only real times where I have to stop and think is when plugging in the case components (like the power button). But many a times have I seen people put a heat sink on a processor with no thermal paste, thankfully sellers have gotten better with packaging to make it obvious so people don’t get hundreds of dollars of components now.
I ran a pc for years with no thermal compound with no problems. Granted it was just a glorified NAS, so never had much load on it…