A gamer assembles a gaming PC. But his mother looks over his shoulder and fears that he is doing completely different things. The player tries to appease his mom.
What happened to a player? A player reports on Reddit that he has assembled a gaming PC. But a serious misunderstanding arose:
While he was assembling his gaming PC, his mother came over and found a syringe among the things. To those in the know, this is obviously a tube for thermal paste.
The paste is usually spread on the processor to provide better heat dissipation. This is intended to compensate for microscopic unevenness on the surface of the CPU. Regardless of whether air or water cooling is used, thermal paste is always needed when building a PC.
What was the misunderstanding? But his mother didn’t recognize the thermal paste and the user explained on Reddit: “My mother asked me if I was on drugs. How should I answer that?” The player’s mom probably assumed that he was injecting himself with substances.
Many players tell him that he should simply tell his mother the truth and explain to her what the paste in the tube is used for.
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