do thermal paste brands even matter
Nah, it's like asking if pasta brands matter
does thermal paste expire
>>749003273The differences between brands are negligible.
>>749003273As long as you're not getting some third rate shit from Temu you should be fine with anything. It's less about what brand of thermal paste and more about how you apply it.
>>749003376Barilla or nothing
I've never had to reapply paste made by arctic even after 10+ years. The same can't be said about whatever shit paste most video card manufacturers are using.
>>749003273marginally
>>749003273
>>749003481In the tube or on a board?
>>749003481Not really, and you replace it whenever you feel the need to, computers generally should downclock and in worst cases power off if they were to get close to overheating
>>749003273This chinese thermal paste that doesn't even have some flashy name, probably just compound test number like wd-40 is BETTER than every single "high end" thermal paste out there btw while costing a fraction of the pricechina wins again
>pc enthusiasts call console chads gay>pc guys buy these phallic shaped tubes they fondle that they ejaculate into their pc?????I’m not going to lie- the pc is more powerful, but something there doesnt quite add up.
>>749003273>pasteJust do direct die with liquid metal nerd. Or get a kryonaut sheet if you refuse to delid.
>>749003642The "my pc is running cool while playing a glorified flash game" always gets me.
>>749003728got something on your mind?
>>749003273MX-4 is all you need, anything else and you're wasting your money.
>>749003273Biggest difference is between the graphene thermal sheets (worse heat transference, but can last for almost ever without being changed), thermal paste (better performance, needs replaced), and finally liquid metal (marginal gains over thermal paste, will rape your entire build if used incorrectly/spilled)
>>749003642How long do you think the c00m paste lasted before there was a housefire?
>>749003728Console chuds will never know the joy of squeezing out thick ropes of pc cream
>>749003273thermal paste is so last year. we rocking honeywell ptm7950 now.
>>749003481I've never changed mine and after like 8 years I still haven't had any issues with overheating.
tangentially related but i recently overclocked my cpu and holy shit my games run so much better now
>>749003376Of course that matters it’s the most important part of the dish retard
>>749003481You mean, like, in the tube? Or the paste on the actual CPU? I think it's supposedly good practice to reapply it once every like 5+ years or something? I didn't touch mine until I upgraded my rig about 8 years later and everything was running fine.
>>749003273No. Buy a thermal pad and never worry about pumpout
>>749003273yes but only insofar as you don't buy garbagethere is minimal room to make exceptionally good paste (relative to everyone else), but it's possible to make exceptionally poor ones instead
>>749003642Since it's mostly water, cum should be a pretty good thermoconductor until it dries, right? The point of thermal paste is that it maintains its thermoconductivity over a long time.So it should be a viable and affordable thermal compound, as long as you reapply on a daily, or maybe twice daily basis.
>>749003785Oh, I suspect you already know…
>>749003481Reusing old thermal paste can create air pockets/bubbles between the heatsink and the CPU/GPU. It'll be fine for years if left in the syringe though.
>>749003376Pasta brands DOES matter
>>749004159Does this work pretty well? I have the paste, but I've been thinking about trying this instead
>>749003273You literally never need to replace thermal paste retards stop falling for consumerism propaganda
>>749003481I still use an old PC I bought in 2014 as my daily driver. Until this year when I decided to upgrade the CPU to the most powerful one the mobo could support (i7 4790k) for the hell of it, I had not once ever changed the thermal paste. 12 year old thermal paste running almost 24/7 with no issues.
been using Duronautsomehow better than the more expensive Kryonaut while also remaining stable for years
>>749003273Anyone ever tried using thermal paste to jack off?
I don't think so
>>749003642jesus fuck can you imagine the smell once he opens that card?? genuinely whats wrong with you faggots, absolutely disgusting and for what? fame? you are an Anon!zero reward absolutely zero
>>749003481Yes it oxidizes and gets all dry and worthless.
>>749003273if you are getting one of the top performing ones, it doesnt matter to much. your performance will be good. those cpu plates will help even moreAnd if you are buying a top performing cpu cooler it cant get much better
>>749004159Unless you buy something like the TG Kryosheet (which is basically one time use as it loses conductivity when reused) you're looking at 5C+ higher temps compared to a good paste.
>>749004684The reward is the infamy of a screencap, anon. Do not ask a man what compels him to be a degenerate, for the answer is likely even worse than the behavior in question.
>>749004986holy shit how fucking old is this chart
>>749004551I've had a couple for years and a few cooler changes. Works great. GN did the numbers.
>>74900520325 or so years
>everyone says to draw an X on ryzen cpus>do that>temps are higher than expected>repaste but this time add another little line coming down from the center>kind of looks like the X has a benis>4 degrees cooler>this has worked twice nowMen are better than women at everything.
>>749005301Oh hell yeah, thank you anon
>>749004986I still have some Artic Silver 5 that's like 20 years old
>>749005570May your TIM never dry.
>>749005481I * just in case
write the kanji for cold withy our thermal paste
>>749003273just use that OP arctic is as reliable as you can get these days
>EASY APPLICATION NO SPREADING POSSIBLEThrow it in the trash
>>749003945There's only one way to make pasta retard
Uhhhh...I boughted the PTM from the Kraut. Did I get scammed?
>>749008889its literally honeywell ptm7950 but sold under a different bag
>>749003273shit is less than 5C diff on whatever paste niggajust get a cheap one that's not conductive and call it a dayIve been using a 10+ year old artic forgot the code paste, and shit just worksbeen using that shit since 6600k release date kekI do want to buy some thermal pads and repaste my 3070 thoughbeit
Why cant we update this shit already so that pads/paste is done entirely differently? Cant they just sell CPUs already de-lidded, so more effecient cooling can be done?
>>749003273Yeah some brands taste better than others I've found
>apply thermal paste on 9800X3D>accidentally lift the cooler up while trying to mount it>try to wipe the paste off and redo it>gets all in the cracks and even under the IHS>spend forever trying to clean it all out before trying againI'm not fucked rightright
>>749009493nah. I've done some horrific things with thermal paste and it had no real effect on whether it ranas in, got a little bit of it in the pins UNDER the cpu and it still worked
rate my thermal paste application
>>74900963510/10 no notes
>>749003273It's not like it's expensive so just buy the best brand
>>749009663is that enough paste?I think the picture is deceptive because it doesn't show depth and I don't remember what it actually looked like when I put the cooler on but I keep looking at it and feeling like it wasn't enoughI don't think I ever did a proper stress test while looking at the temps either but I haven't had any problems
>>749009635more
>>749009493Thermal past is usually non-conductive. You're fine.
>>749009635>>749009738If you're not being ironic just do a pea-sized dot in the middle, mount the cooler and you're done, fuck all the other methods.
>>749003273Yes. But replacing thermal paste will go badly and you will brick your pc.
>>749009738I'd maybe put a bit more into the center but generally it's fine
>>749004551It works like a regular-to-bad" paste. A good paste has better performance for sure but at least you don't have to raplace the pad ever.Not that it matters tho, a good paste can last easily 5+ years of constant use which is half the life of a PC.
>>749008889i was a ptm fanboy 2 years ago and it is pure fucking cope, just buy regular paste like arctic or this>>749003708 this chinese paste is actually the best out there but shipping is long so it is what it isptm is hard to apply, hard to clean. and double the price while the performance being mid af, ive come to that realization ptm is pure cope.
>>749003273I had to use some unknown chinese brand paste which i can't even read what the thingy says once and it worked just as fine and just as long as the kyronaut paste i bought.I felt scammed.
>>749003273it doesnt matter but arctic is the best doe
>>749010102new cpus are bigger so the dot method isnt good anymor
Why don't they just make the cooler and CPU one solid unit so you don't need paste?
>>749010667its WIY project, weld it yourself
>>749009635Put one small dot in each corner.
>>749004403I can get some fancier pasta at the wholesale palace for cheaper than regular grocery store shit but its not that different. Their rotini is thicker I guess but mostly that just means it takes like 3 minutes longer to cook
>>749010598Yes it fucking is, you just put a bigger dot. They're not big enough that they're rewriting the laws of physics.
>>749009635cross and dots on each side.
>>749010667yeah i want this piece of shit permanently bonded to the cpu
>>749004592Same as you almost exactly. Built my pc in 2014, except with an i5. No issues and it still runs as good as the day I built it. So smooth and clean and it's on 24/7 with heavy usage at least 14 hours every day
>>749011105literally me except i got mine in 2016 and upgraded to an i7 7700k
>>749009771>>749010287>>749010845>>749010909don't tell me I have to take the cooler off and redo it to put more..........
>>749011524Nah that works. Ive always found that a cross with tiny dots covers more area, but the cross is enough if you already did that.
>>749003273Wait am I supposed to do maintenance on my computer? I just kinda had one built and did nothing with it
>>749011524If you've already got it locked into your MoBo and posted don't worry about it until next time you work on it for upgrades or maintenance.
>>749003535Barilla is a noobtrap, Rummo is where it's at.
>>749011667At the very least you have to get some canned air and carefully blow dust out of it every 6-12 months, but it's also good to replace the cooling goop every 1-2 years.
>>749010378>hard to applyits super easy if you keep it cold. just store it in your butter drawer or something.>hard to cleanyou wot m8? i personally find it easier than some other pastes because it stiffins up and comes off in bigger flakes rather than just being a goopy mess when you use an alcohol pad>price:performance being midits a solid thermal solution, its just not the best. the main factors for ptm is longevity and knowing you're going to get 100% coverage without having to spread it or any shit.No, its not going to be like liquid metal or whatever in cooling performance, but its within a couple degree delta of other compounds with basically no drawbacks. sounds like you have a skill issue.
>>749004684I remember a time when people did things for fun instead of for online clout.
>>7490120101-2years is retarded. on average you're really looking at 5+ years before you start thinking about it and thats *if* you start noticing cooling issues/thermal throttling.For most people the most maintnence you need to do on a fully air cooled system is blow compressed air over your fans and cooling tower and clean your case air filters (if you have them) every 6mo or so.Basically everything else else falls down into repair category, like if your fans start squeeking or whatever and needing to replace them.
>>749003481Depends how you store it. I still have thermal paste I bought back in like 2009 or so that is as fresh as the day I bought it but I use it on cheaper stuff I own now and bought some Arctic when I built my current PC a year or so back which will probably last the rest of my life at the rate I'm going through it.
>>749003273I usually go by flavor.
my cpu came with some carbon thermal pad thingy so I just used that
>>749003273>do thermal paste brands even matterThat's pretty bigoted of you they all matter
>>749013306same
ye it duz, da bloo un orunge wun iz da best tastiee
Use toothpasteBest minty cool freshness for years
>buy most thermal conductive thermal paste>redo every year because I love my computer>just make a big dot with 4 points>use Windows Se7en with custom dark classic theme and goy services disabled>script at boot terminates resident drivers from wasting resources>never had a problemI bet you don't even use full enclosure dust filter like a good goy
>>749003273Is this the thread?
>>749003376Rana is better than Barilla.
>>749004574You do with some brands, since they're shit.But stop buying thermal grizzly and you'll never need to replace it again.
>>749004684Sorry zoomer, you wouldn't get it because you're retarded. Sometimes people do things because they are funny, and for no other reason.I know this is impossible for your swiss-cheese brain to understand.
>>749003273So on a laptop which has small ihs do I just do one straight line?I mean the GPU is square but the CPU is this weird rectangle shape and has one small square of the i-GPU at the end, do I just do a line??
>>749003273I just boughted this paste to install my 5800x 3d. Get out of my walls!
>>749015089I got duronaut a while back and now I have the lowest temps ever
>>749003273I dont even use those anymore, they bundled a "carbice ice pad" with my 5800x3d (i bought the re-release) and it works pretty good, im sure a good thermal paste application is better but im just taking the path of least resistance as long as its good enough
>>749003376but they do actually matter>>749003535if you are a nigger yeah probably>>749008786lmao idiot>>749004403truth>>749015034kill yourself
>>749003775Do CPUs ever go below 30C when idling?>>749003941>tfw bought a laptop with locked down stuffIt's a miracle I can do anything about the GPU.At least it runs fine.
>>749005932>snowflake symbol for better coolingWe're doing magic now
>>749016403What if the arcane gods of magic think it's an anus?
>>749016580Happens only if you're gay
My arctic silver 5 never failed me.
>>749003273I'd slap any old shit on there. I think my CPU is currently sporting some no-name Chinese make. Next time I might try cumming on the IHS and see how that goes>>749003535Who doesn't just buy the supermarket own brand pasta. Fucking retard
>>749004403theres no such thing as fancy dried pasta. fancy pasta is made fresh
>>749016152A "good thermal paste application" is just spunking a bunch of paste on to the CPU and letting the pressure spread it out. It's the easiest thing in the world
>>749017102Ya but you have to reapply it 10 years later :( the pad stays on forever
>>749014985shamiko would never say this
>>749003273KPT-8 is good enough
Usually they don't, but some don't last long or are messier to apply. Buy good components that won't hit stupid temps would be the first thing to do.PTM7 whatever the fuck is not that good for temps, it's there for durability. It's so you set and forget, for laptops, handhelds and such. If you need thermal pads just grab the arctic ones since these you can actually stack if you can't find the right measurements.
I havent changed my CPU thermal paste in 6 years
>>749008786Read ingredients, fool. Wheat in America is garbage.
>>749005481Try a swastika next
>>749010667people do this but you void your warranty.you have to remove the built in heat spreader for direct-die cooling, it's a total pain in the ass and barely a marginal improvement on most CPUs.and you still have to rely on thermal paste because soldering your CPU to a cooler is just not practical and it'd probably end up cracking off from thermal expansion cycles or something.
my PC is 11 years old and I've never changed it
>>749003273Until like a year ago I always thought this was a meme because putting some paste into your electronic components sounds like it would destroy them
>>749018647i mean what are your temps looking like under load? if theyre fine theres nothing to worry but the stuff is going to be dry after like 5-6 years
>>749003273Not really, but the type does. There are basically two kinds>White paste with marginally better heat transfer but will dry out into chalk and needs replacing in a few years>Silver paste that will basically last foreverBtw, this is part of the reason Xbox 360s all eventually shat themselves.
Daily reminder.TOTAL DROP NIGGER DEATH.
>>749003273Doesn't really matter to me, every 2 years I change it because I'm still aircooling so I'm giving my fan (currently a dark rock elite) a proper full clean to remove the dust and while I'm at it I might as well change the paste anyway. Tried a few brands, including the meme ones like thermal grizzly and for my usecase there is no difference. Maybe for someone who doesn't clean his fan every 2 years.
>>749003376>>749003535>>749015034>>749016164>rana >barillayou cant cookmake your own pasta instead of buying goyslop pasta
>>749019784Agree with the sentiment but the video doesn't prove shit. When you are screwing in the cooler screws corner by corner it's not the same as just placing carefully a flat surface on top, the shaking and jittering while you are screwing will inevitably make smudges and air bubbles.
>>749020000that's why all the screws have springs on them to apply constant even pressure.this video is old as hell anyways, the actual proven most consistent way is to just spread a thin layer across the entire surface.
>>7490039595 years is playing it safe. Just monitor your thermals during a stress test and if they don't go above acceptable levels, it's probably fine.
>>749003376if the pasta is yellow it's shit regardless of the brand
>>749020193>just spread a thin layer across the entire surface.that makes bubbles
>>749020253>egg yolk bad!!Vegan moment
>>749004684for the lulz
>>749003376Don't buy barilla retards. Buy de cecco
>>749020000go fuck yourself wasted quadsall dot niggers must FUCKING hang.
>>749003849This. I had to re-paste my GPU and ptm7950 dropped my core temps by 20c and hotspot temps 30c.
>>749020312maybe if you're a retard or something.
>>749018738So did you just put the cooler on the CPU or what? I need more insights into your demented mind anon
>>749003273Not anymore, PCs aren't attainable anyway.
There should be no need for it.Computers shouldn't be so powerful that it requires it - because then it'd just be too power-intensive, and we shouldn't be draining so many resources from Earth.
>>749019852I've done that, it isn't worth the hassle. >friend group gets together to play d&d and hang out>decide we wanna make a 100% homemade lasagna>every single aspect turns out fantastic and worth doing except grinding meat and making pasta>both were fine, but too much hassle to bother with on the future
>>749004592I have an i5 4460 PC, which I've built back in 2014 myself, and I didn't even peel out the firm on the cooler because I was apparently retarded and it's been the first time I built a PC myself. It's been pretty cool all these years to this very day, and the paste I used was some shitty paste included with the cooler itself. I wouldn't even know if I didn't replace the mobo, though the temps are better with MX-4 now.
>>749020648What I meant was seeing stuff like this just looked like trolling, like those old images where it said your IPhone has a new charging tech when you put it in your microwave. I thought people who posted this were all in on the joke that the idea of putting paste on electronics would brick it, so I did post about doing it as well and laughed about it.I never build a PC myself and don't plan doing so. Just ordered from those sites where you choose your parts and they set everything up for you.
>>749003708>bought a tube of $5 chink thermal paste a decade ago>still use it todayit just works
>>749021078>I never build a PC myself and don't plan doing so. Just ordered from those sites where you choose your parts and they set everything up for you.No offense, but I think that people like you shouldn be forced to use Apple Macs. Anyway, you could slather the board itself in thermal paste and it would be fine. Probably a bunch of us have leaked thermal paste into the CPU pins.
>>749021297>I think that people like you shouldn be forced to use Apple MacsNah Apple is gay. I'm good on my 5080, Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 64 GB DDR5 RAM setup. Don't need to waste my time learning how to and then building it myself.
>>749020445This nigga knows
>>749003273Yeah they matter, the paste needs to cure within a couple days, and after it does, it needs to maintain a consistent temperature as a thermal bridge to the CPU and the cooler.The brand of paste will determine how much time, diligence and testing went into discovering those numbers.
>>749019784>>749020462What if I do both dots AND lines?
>>749021668Too much paste, it will spill over.Not necessarily a problem on modern CPUs, but if the paste outside the socket will dry up and turn into a bitch to remove.
>>749021668Your os turns german
>>749003535>BarillaDio ce ne scampi
>>749018114You're pic clearly says KNT-8 though?
>>749003807This guy gets it. There is thermal paste that is a few degrees better, but it will last less. For example, a Noctua paste is only a good paste in the first year. Others work better. But it will perform better in year 3. So it really depends how often you plan on changing the paste.
>>749003728>xe doesn't give xer computer a feminine name so inserting a power cable or a thick load of thermal paste aren't gay Mine is called Sapphire.
>>749003273not really since modern processors aren't running as hot as back in the dayif anything GPUs need repasting more often for optimal performance
>>749020462>apply less volume of paste to cpu>it covers less when squished outWOWZERS I THAT REALLY SURPRISED ME!!!!! WHO WOULDVE KNOWN THAT LESS PASTE MEANT LESS COVERAGE
>>749023412if only that were the case for my 3900x. fucker idles at like 50-60c according to core (tctl/tdie) even with a graphene pad with a noctua u12p. compared to my 3570k with a d14 and thermal paste I haven't changed in probably a decade that idles at like 25-30.
>>749023739Your miner saar?
>>749003728Yeah! Id rather my console come pre applied from the factory! Just like I rather have my wife come pre creampied from the yoga class!
>>749023656>SAAR PLEASE SAAR PUT THE PASTE IN THE CPU SAAR PLEASE BINDI SUPER GOOD PLEASE SAR I LOVE BINDI BAABHABHIAT
I use one of these graphite sheet pad things. Kinda nice to never have to buy and apply thermal paste ever again.
>>749024383pic related
>>749003273Just don't buy cheap chinkshit. That's literally the only rule.>>749003481Kinda but it will "just" get slightly worse and you should replace the paste once every few years anyway.>>749003376The best pasta brand is (You).
>>749003376> food analogy
>>749021668I do that.>>749021932Just use iso alcohol 99% man.
>>749003273thermal paste IS A MEEEME!!i never eeever changed thermal paste on my 9 year old PC, hell i never even clean it at all in the inside and IT.JUST.WERKS.Stop falling for jewish propaganda garbage... well at least it's cheap. Still a literal nothingburger
Not really.
>>749015015Does this shit really happen?? wtf... did he push too hard or was it a very old and dry paste? maybe a garbage brand? too many questions..
>>749003376>>749003535For me, it's the humble RaosIf you're a Bottle King Member both the pasta and the sauce go on sale constantly.Also the whole grain Barilla is pretty good
>>749028926He's just a fucking idiot. I always do the initial "push" onto a piece of paper to avoid shit like this, then after I've gotten like 2 inches out I apply it
>>749010310Yeah but you can take the pad from PC to PC. It survives upgrades
>>749025868you don't eat your thermal pasta? what a weirdo.
>>749003535you mean catelli
>>749013306kek based
>>749020703That happens a lot. Unless you can really make a specific dish spectacular with ancient chinese techniques, a lot of dishes are pretty much about as good as store-bought. Definitely not everything though, nothing beats fresh bread or sauces (if made right)
