Thermal Compound Alternative

xBoom

New Member
I'm out of thermal paste. Are there any recipes for "homemade" thermal compound? I can't go out and buy today. Please, just don't say this: "Wait for tomorrow" or something like that.
 

oscaryu1

VIP Member
Ive heard of people using toothpaste before. I don't think it works that well though.:rolleyes:

In shortterm use, it's been proven to be better than Arctic Silver 5. If you need an thermal paste to play some hardcore games for an few hours, toothpaste will do.
 

diduknowthat

formerly liuliuboy
Toothpaste works very well...until it dries up and crusts, then it performs horribly. So if you want to use toothpaste, just make sure you reapply the paste every like 45 minutes.
 

dan_plus_o

New Member
Well said nexolus.. :p

Why would you want to mess around with something so important as Thermal Compound.. I know I wouldn't trust my $300 CPU to toothpaste or some other homemade crap.
 

xBoom

New Member
Sorry for late reply. I tried toothpaste and it works great! Better than thermal compound. 43C idle with toothpaste and 45C idle with thermal compound. However, I bought the thermal compound. Thanks everyone!
 

bomberboysk

Active Member
BomberBoy has some graph that has some interesting temperatures with cheese.

iirc cheese=fail
Yeah, got that graph from hardocp, technically they used american "cheese" which is considered a cheese food, not actual cheese(and dont even ask me why they tested it, i have no idea)

And personally when i get my synthetic test bed working and once i test all the TIM's i plan on testing, ill prolly throw a few household items in as well.
 

linkin

VIP Member
Someone test peanut butter. if my calculations are correct it will dry up and become horribly difficult to remove. much like when i tried to cook chicken satay and burnt about half an inch of peanut butter to the frying pan.


mmmmm, satay chicken.
 
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