Well, I've looked up paste application techniques on Youtube, and supposedly the most effective method is to place a drop in the center and squash it with the heatsink, therefore eliminating potential air-bubbles that might prevent proper heat dispersion.
Also, do the speeds I'm going to see correlate somehow to the make? Is my 800mhz RAM going to be set to that setting? Does "Wolfdale 8400" mean I set it to 8400, or since it's dual core, is it 4200?
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**** MY LIFE!!!
I'm a failure, I can't do ANYTHING right! I might as well kill my ****ing self!
I tried to stop being scared and put the heatsink on, I practiced with the gunk on some paper to see how much I'd need, and then I tried it on the processor. I went to install the heatsink and lines up the four prong things with the holes, but I didn't see that the manual said to push in the pins diagonal from each other, so I stuck the top two in, and then I realized they were so uneven, so I decided to stop and remove them, but I couldn't figure out how. I know it said to turn the pins in the direction it says to remove them, but it only worked for the one, and the other one just wouldn't move, and I started to panic, I didn't know what to do, and the paste was probably ruined by now from all the exposure to air, and I was afraid I was going to crack the motherboard trying to get it off, and eventually I tugged enough that it came off and I set it down, and I looked down to see the CPU, and it was covered with almost the exact right amount of paste, but part of the tape or whatever that was on the bottom of the heatsink had stuck to the processor, and the manual said at the bottom "Use extreme care when removing the CPU cooler because the thermal grease/tape between the CPU cooler and CPU may adhere to the CPU. Inadequately removing the CPU cooler may damage the CPU".
I've broken it, I know I have, it's going to be ruined, inoperable along with everything else! It doesn't look damaged looking at it, but I know it, my stupid clumsy hands can't do anything! The motherboard probably already broke when I was installing it after I tried time after time to get it in and once dropped my screwdriver while fastening it into the case. I probably already broke everything with static without feeling it or seeing it, even if I always kept part of my body touching the inside of the case.
And now I can't do anything, I have no way of removing the paste for another try and I have to wait for my neighbor who knows how to work with computers to do it for me. I KNEW I couldn't be trusted to do something like this! All you have to do is barely TOUCH a computer the wrong way for it to be broke forever. I've always hated how EVERYTHING to do with hardware takes tons of strength and force, it's like they WANT you to **** up and snap your motherboard in two by installing your RAM.
I just can't do it anymore, I'll never have my better computer, it's all going to be ruined...