Stefan Mileschin

Just no vinegar

A TikTok user @mryeester, has found that adding a pinch of salt to his thermal paste improves temperature control.

According to Tom's Hardware @mryeester has been experimenting with a wide variety of food to see if they can be substituted for off-the-shelf thermal paste and been posting his results -- which have been spectacularly bad.

But when @mryeester added salt to some thermal paste, he saw temperature improvements of 2 to 3C over thermal paste alone.

In another video, he tried replacing thermal paste with powdered sugar, thinking that the fine-grained material would provide enough contact between the IHS and the CPU. Sadly it did not, with temps being about 60 degrees higher than with thermal paste.

https://fudzilla.com/news/55713-spri...s-chip-cooling