Bought a $12 tube of thermal paste at Micro Center and my temps dropped 20C, who knew the crusty white stuff from 2019 was the whole problem

River Rivera · 2026-10-12T07:35:03.851585+00:00

Pulled apart a client's PC in my shop off Lamar in Austin thinking it needed a new CPU cooler since it was hitting 95C under load, but the old paste was basically chalk and that cheap tube fixed it. Anyone else see techs skip a repaste and jump straight to selling a $90 AIO?

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Bought a $12 tube of thermal paste at Micro Center and my temps dropped 20C, who knew the crusty white stuff from 2019 was the whole problem | Computer Technicians - Guest Forum