60 Is it OK to use toothpaste instead of thermal paste when fitting a CPU? 2010-01-29T11:29:40.093

18 What's the proper way to remove thermal paste from a CPU? 2010-04-17T14:30:18.730

17 Does unused thermal paste get old? 2011-08-08T13:41:17.903

14 What is the gum like thing on the heat sink? 2013-06-29T21:30:43.663

13 Five year old unopened boxed CPU – is the stock thermal compound still good? 2014-04-29T23:40:14.323

11 How much thermal paste should apply to the CPU? 2011-02-16T05:28:45.260

9 What chemical should I use for removing thermal paste? 2011-04-06T17:18:23.247

8 Does heat sink compound degrade with time? 2011-08-04T20:15:16.600

7 How to remove 13 year old metal loaded thermal paste 2011-04-18T11:02:08.783

7 What happens when too much thermal paste is used 2014-01-31T15:05:56.010

5 Thermal Paste - does it cool the heatsink more with time? 2010-11-17T04:28:41.550

5 Don’t engravings on a CPU defeat heatsink smoothness? 2011-06-12T00:16:27.867

5 What is this rubber pad under my laptop's heatsink? 2012-07-14T19:12:37.603

5 How do I correctly apply thermal paste on a laptop CPU with a small surface area? 2013-09-29T21:18:49.490

5 Clean thermal paste from touch contact points on the underside of the CPU 2014-06-01T00:22:18.730

4 Processor Heatsink - Thermal paste application 2010-06-26T21:24:27.250

4 What factors are relevant when buying thermal paste? 2011-08-08T15:03:18.350

4 Heat Transfer Paste reapplication 2011-10-19T12:57:15.963

3 Is cooler included in Intel® Boxed Intel® Core™ i7-2600 Processor? 2011-12-03T03:41:27.050

3 Do I need to apply more thermal compund? 2012-03-16T22:44:51.090

3 Thermal Paste in a Laptop quickly loses efficiency 2012-08-24T08:38:21.467

3 Computer GPU fan seems louder after cleaning and reapplying thermal paste 2013-02-20T10:46:28.463

3 How to cool my laptop? 2014-04-25T10:18:50.440

3 Thin Layer of Thermal Paste Under CPU Fan? 2019-10-01T21:15:25.927

2 Can I use old thermal paste? 2010-08-24T20:49:18.817

2 Role of Anti-static wrist wrap, Applying thermal solution , cleaning if spilled , and other necessary precautions, protecting your motherboard 2010-08-28T07:36:23.640

2 Overheating i7 920 2011-04-02T11:54:54.597

2 Reapplied thermal compound to North Bridge, computer no longer boots 2011-08-18T01:22:24.760

2 Safe to resume High-Performance-Computing applications immediately after new thermal paste? 2011-12-14T21:26:02.417

2 Does it make sense to replace the thermal paste in a new Intel i7 stock cooler? 2012-12-13T20:35:31.747

2 Thermal paste on stock cooler and CPU 2013-06-24T03:19:36.840

2 Arctic Silver paste for a new laptop? 2014-01-01T14:33:43.970

2 Can i use cleaning alcohol 90% to remove thermal paste on the cpu? 2017-07-02T14:34:23.917

1 Thermo Paste less heat sink? 2010-01-10T02:24:37.010

1 Thermal paste was installed on my new heatsink. Does it need to get re-applied if I remove it? 2011-12-22T04:23:09.137

1 Process to replace motherboard and keep CPU 2012-09-03T18:58:31.570

1 Should I remove old thermal pads while changing video card? 2013-02-23T14:25:56.190

1 Can thermal paste damage CPU and video card some time after applying? 2013-06-13T12:36:37.743

1 Orientation of PC during burn-in? 2013-07-05T02:11:55.183

1 Laptop will not power from battery 2013-12-09T20:48:34.453

1 Do third party cooler's T.I.M. contain adheasive? 2013-12-21T20:22:13.487

1 No Thermal paste on box CPU? 2015-07-26T21:33:12.500

1 How can I be sure I've removed the old thermal grease thoroughly? 2016-05-26T14:03:35.780

1 How do I safely separate the heatsink/pipe from the processor on the Packard Bell F7280? 2016-06-14T10:20:45.053

1 Spread arctic silver 5 thermal paste or not on laptop cpu? 2016-08-26T13:17:21.047

1 Lenovo y70 70 touch - how to clean the heatsink? 2017-07-19T06:54:50.167

1 Broken pin on Intel heatsink - is it a risk? 2018-04-28T23:26:58.283

1 Nvidia Geforce 240M GPU overheating, forcing laptop to shut down 2018-07-06T12:56:05.400

1 Can I get a heatsink to work without thermal paste, temporarily? 2018-08-28T15:23:53.880

1 Do I have to repaste Laptop CPU/GPU in the same way it was when I opened it? 2019-08-12T17:43:57.593

1 GPU Thermal paste melting off quickly? 2019-12-18T08:57:30.810

0 Alternatives for Thermal paste 2011-06-03T16:43:53.877

0 GPU chip with a film around the core 2011-09-11T15:35:03.210

0 GPU overheat due to thermal paste 2011-12-30T23:45:56.413

0 what happens if I apply thermal paste on a stock cooler? 2013-10-05T20:55:58.560

0 CPU and Thermal Types 2013-12-06T20:56:28.850

0 Heat and its relationship to Frequency in overclocking 2014-02-05T07:34:33.180

0 Best practices for thermal paste for CPUs during maintenance 2014-06-28T17:51:30.537

0 I foolishly detached the fiddly "push pin" cooler from a client's old PC. Here are some possible plans of action. What would you do, and why? 2014-07-12T00:09:35.023

0 Is this thermal paste or a thermal pad? 2014-08-16T18:47:02.640

0 Unexpected, unexplained laptop crash HP Pavilion g6 2015-03-09T20:54:31.523

0 Artic Silver ArtiClean on motherboard 2015-07-10T21:00:38.403

0 Why laptop is hot even after changing of thermal grease? 2016-03-04T20:02:27.307

0 Cleaning laptop fan with a vacuum cleaner 2016-07-09T12:47:14.450

0 Temperature rising every day after replacing old thermal paste 2016-08-13T06:03:44.763

0 Adding some kind of heat paste when replacing thermal pads GPU and other chips 2016-10-09T08:25:42.920

0 Do thermal pads require a burn in period? 2017-04-10T09:03:06.447

0 Is it possible that processor heating not because of cooling system fault? 2017-05-06T17:03:09.707

0 What is the maximum distance for thermal paste to be effective? 2017-07-22T23:16:59.817

0 Can excessive application of thermal paste be significantly harmful? 2017-08-27T20:22:59.840

0 How can I figure the just-right amount of Silver compound? 2017-09-26T03:11:37.270

0 How to apply thermal paste for Dell Inspiron 3520 laptop? 2017-12-07T02:06:31.847

0 Liquid metal between die and IHS: Problems with vertical mount? 2018-03-25T09:03:58.757

0 Does rotating CPU ventilator around during installation reduce thermal paste efficiency? 2019-04-03T20:29:10.483

-1 Processor too hot? (85º) 2016-03-11T20:43:18.177

-2 Worth getting thermal paste? Ran 20 youtube videos and got high 70 (degree C) CPU temperature and 80% RAM Usage 2016-04-03T09:32:07.360

-3 What is the tape-like stuff being applied to the cooling assembly for this laptop? 2013-09-13T19:34:53.940

-3 Thermal paste not pad on 970 Evo? 2019-05-10T20:42:18.160

-4 PC crashing after cpu detached from cooling source 2018-02-13T18:36:13.140