Dark rock 4 pro is this normal?
I am 41 years old, so I have seen them all and built a lot of PCs.
My last gaming rig I built myself was a 7800X3D with a Dark Rock Pro 4. I liked the way you screw the 'Rock' onto the motherboard, as I did before with some other builds I made for friends.
That's why I don't really look at the stuff closely enough anymore like I used to. Now, fast-forward 2 years, and I found it was time to clean my PC, remove the paste, and replace it with a Kryonaut graphene sheet. But looking at it now, it seemed some of the paste didn't get tightly pressed between the Dark Rock and the CPU all that well.
So I started to investigate. Now I found out that 1 side of my Dark Rock has a little ridge at the end of the metal, around 0.2 mm—I can catch it with my nail (see my photos). Is this just a bad batch? I cannot believe this little ridge should be there.
In the pic with my finger behind the ridge, you see it best I think. I believe this ridge prevents my Dark Rock from pressing flush against my CPU.
What do you guys think?
"Edit: spelling check"
P.s the side with the little thermal paste on the heatpipes is the side with the ridge.
