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That $50 thermal paste I bought was just fancy mayo in a tube
Last month I got this fancy thermal paste from a small online shop, cost me 50 bucks. It came in this syringe looking thing and claimed to drop temps by 10 degrees. I slapped it on my old gaming rig because the fan was sounding like a jet engine. Turns out it was just some goopy paste made of god knows what, temps barely moved. I checked the batch number and it was some random Alibaba reseller, burned me good. Now I just stick with Arctic Silver for 8 bucks, lesson learned the hard way. Has anyone else got ripped off by those boutique thermal paste brands?
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henryr452d ago
Bro that's rough lol my buddy bought some pink thermal paste from a random Etsy seller once cause it matched his RGB build. It literally turned into crust after a month and his CPU started thermal throttling like crazy. He had to scrape it off with a plastic spudger, never again.
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jamesc792d ago
oh man i read somewhere that some of those Etsy pastes are just repackaged cheap thermal goo with food coloring mixed in. @henryr45 you're spot on about it crusting up, i saw a teardown video where the stuff literally turned into a chalky powder after a few months of heat cycles. never cheap out on thermal paste, just stick with Arctic or Noctua and paint the rest of your rig whatever color you want lol.
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