Evaluating a thermal paste is tricky business. It’s a little like network engineering – when it works properly, you don’t notice. Still, there are a number of thermal pastes out there, and they all ...

It has been a little over a year since I repasted my old Ryzen 9 5900X, which I used to build my PC back in 2020. Until then, I treated thermal paste application as a one-time thing. After all, I used ...

CPU thermal paste is to assemblers and computer repairers, what the thread is to the fashion designer. This underlines the importance of this repair tool and why there must be adequate supply to ...

Thermalright released a new type of thermal pad aimed at taking all the hassle out of applying thermal paste to a CPU. Rather than a tube of paste, Heilos is a 0.2mm-thick pad of thermal compound that ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

If you're building a computer, you need thermal paste, or heat paste, to ensure that your computer's processor doesn't overheat. It's a gloopy, silvery material that you squirt between the processor ...

Ahmad is a writer with a passion for gaming since he was 8. Now, with a medical degree in hand, he has more time to do what he loves: play video games, upgrade his gaming rig, and write about tech.

Learn how to apply thermal paste on your PC for optimal cooling. Here are key PC building tips to master applying thermal paste and avoid overheating. Pixabay, thalienano Applying thermal paste ...

Developing high-power electronic devices with their simultaneous miniaturization is of critical importance. Consequently, the compactness in computers calls for higher integration of transistors ...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but mixing table salt with your thermal paste to cool your PC processor (or any component) is a bad idea. Most people wouldn't even consider it (I hope, anyway), ...

Okay, so this is more for marketing than something you'd consider practical - Cooler Master has used its Cryofuze 5 thermal paste to paint a landscape mural on a CPU. Available in a range of colors, ...