Never thought I’d make this mistake but if finally happened
Posted by Azphix@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 16 comments
I finished putting my build together yesterday and I noticed my cpu temps were fairly high. Guess what what culprit was? Exactly I did not remove the plastic wrap on the AIO a mistake which while silly happened to me (and I consider myself to be pretty good at building PC’s) may this serve as yet another PSA to not forget to remove the AIO plastic wrap off of your CPU!
TACKIMPACT95@reddit
Got too excited. Lool
AdhesivenessMany1518@reddit
At least you didn't bend your pins
postsshortcomments@reddit
Be super careful with those plastic clamshells.
Usually I'll build on the floor because there's less that can go wrong, but old and after years of concrete kneeling one of my knee just doesn't like pressure from kneeling on concrete anymore.
Popped the clamshell while standing with the < shape pointing away from me, it was being difficult so I gave it a little extra of a pull, and it turns out plastic clamshells that just don't want to give up easily are a trampolines for CPUs.
The CPU popped out, there was a countertop in front of me so I thought it'd be save, but it proceeded to skid across the polished stone countertop pin side up for probably about 6 feet, until it decided to Evel Knievel'd itself right off of the countertop right over the pet's fountain water feature, and then landed directly on the tile flooring. Stuck its landing pin side down and bent like 4-5 pins, but was lucky enough that the tip of a mechanical pencil fixed it.
Rubaraxxx@reddit
I'm on 5/5 so far. To be fair I build with used parts so I only had to pay attention to it twice
9okm@reddit
Right of passage.
actionerror@reddit
*rite
9okm@reddit
Damn, I'm an idiot. Appreciated, lol.
TrayLaTrash@reddit
I'm 1/1 in not doing that so far.
Denman20@reddit
Give it time… we all make a mistake or get distracted lol
Although I will say the blue plastic is much more obvious than some of the clear plastic…
TrayLaTrash@reddit
I think mine had redstriping on the clear plastic. Spent like 6-8 hours building the thing. Only mistake I made was not plugging in one of the cases usb plugs to the motherboard. I won't be building another for quite sometime unless grandpa buys the 11 year old a pc in the coming years, as they will certainly ask for my input.
Denman20@reddit
I build a lot of PCs, probably way over 300 by now. Unfortunately my friend was in the room when I figured out why my CPU temps were so high. Dude looks at me and smiles and goes “you forgot the plastic didn’t you…” I’ll never live it down 😂
TrayLaTrash@reddit
At least its just a false flag of a problem, better that than say a broken pump motor on an aio or something dumb.
UpstairsConnection57@reddit
At least it was an easily fixed mistake that didn't damage anything.
Azphix@reddit (OP)
For sure, it was installing windows and the temps jumped the to 80s and even at idle it was running at 60. lol never again.
Jeferson9@reddit
"never thought I'd make a mistake but if finally happened"
Any_Cold5965@reddit
Wow, Smutherer