I swore this would never happen to me. I laughed of those to whom it did. That'll teach me.

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They should put a warning on that.
- You'd think, right? 😶
Am I understanding correctly that you put the paste on top of the plastic that's covering the CPU? 😁 Pretty funny, heh
- Do cpu's come with a cover sticker, now? They never used to.
  
  Anyhow, I believe by the looks of it that OP left the protective sticker on their cooler side, and not their cpu side.
  
  This is some barely-passive passive-aggressive nit-picking. 😛
At least you noticed it right away and not after using the CPU for years with horrible performance.
- Yeah... Put everything back together, turned it on, opened open hardware monitor - saw 75° of idle cpu temp, sighed, turned it off, opened it back up.
  
  After fixing and reinstalling properly (thermalright phantom 120 evo if anyone wants to know) the cpu (ryzen 7) dropped to 46°, much more what's expected of n idle ryzen 7
  
  I've use the phantom spirit 120se on two builds now. They are CRAZY for the price. Also, I did the same thing with the first one.
Looks like the paste spread pretty nicely though, so at least that went okay.
- Sigh - yes, i was actually pretty happy with my spread (9-dots plus spreading if anyone wonders)
Pretty sure I did this on my Thermalright cooler the first time, too. Maybe they need to make it more obvious for people like me.
Well that's not "red", it's "rust". How could you be expected to spot that?

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