Thermal paste is a scam, just use minty fresh toothpaste on your CPU
Thermal paste is a scam, just use minty fresh toothpaste on your CPU
"this stuff absorbs heat...it probably tastes cool and refreshing?" (eying forbidden thermal paste tube)
Personally I'll only use ivermectin on my builds
For those who just need a tl;dr
You cam use toothpaste temporarily. The reason why you shouldnt is a few reasons:
It can be conductive, its not the best conductor of heat, and most importantly, it dries out extremely fast (youd basically be repasting very often)
IIRC thermal paste isn't intended to conduct heat, it simply fills the miniscule gaps between cooler and CPU lid for maximum contact
In order to conduct heat through those gaps since air is a terrible heat conductor
in true anarchist fashion, i wheatpasted my CPU
Demonstration of correct technique
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Do not do this
I used mayonez for like 4 days waiting for thermal grease to arrive
It only works if you put it in the pins though
DansData, 2002, has your results: http://dansdata.com/goop.htm
Fun read, thanks. I miss '02 Interneta loooot
But in the short term, and assuming you don't bridge any contacts with it (it's sufficiently conductive to cause problems), it would seem that toothpaste works just fine as thermal compound.
There are also conductive thermal pastes. At least there were a few years ago.
Am I really supposed to replace thermal paste every couple years? Can't I just have a thing that continues to work?
Nah, the modern one's work easily 6+ years, change it if your thermals start to raise unexpectedly (and even then dust build up or a broken fan is the more likely problem)
It works until the toothpaste gets cooked. Then it's very hard to clean afterwards.
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