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I finally saw why my old thermal paste was causing random shutdowns after a clean install

The paste on my personal rig had dried out and cracked, causing poor heat transfer that only showed up under a sustained load for about 15 minutes, so has anyone else had a paste fail silently like that?
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burns.brooke
Ever find old paste stuck like cement on a cooler?
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kellyj23
kellyj231d ago
Did you actually try to clean it off with alcohol or did you just go straight to scraping? Because I had a GPU once where the paste was so dry it crumbled into little pieces when I touched it. Wondering if that's what you ran into or something worse.
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tyler822
tyler8222mo ago
Wouldn't a bad paste just throttle, not shut down?
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