privatized_sun [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoThermal paste is a scam, just use minty fresh toothpaste on your CPUwww.google.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up148arrow-down1external-linkThermal paste is a scam, just use minty fresh toothpaste on your CPUwww.google.comprivatized_sun [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilinkfile-text
“this stuff absorbs heat…it probably tastes cool and refreshing?” (eying forbidden thermal paste tube)
minus-squareperviouslyiner@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoDansData, 2002, has your results: http://dansdata.com/goop.htm
minus-squarethe_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoFun read, thanks. I miss '02 Interneta loooot
minus-squareplinky [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year ago 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.
minus-squarechickentendrils [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThere are also conductive thermal pastes. At least there were a few years ago.
DansData, 2002, has your results: http://dansdata.com/goop.htm
Fun read, thanks. I miss '02 Interneta loooot
There are also conductive thermal pastes. At least there were a few years ago.