Intel486dx33 wrote on 2021-02-12, 22:35:I accidentally dropped it on my beige carpet and then I accidentally
Stepped on it. It stuck to my white sock like peanut butter. Then I walked around the room and it put black stains all over
My carpet.
I hope those white socks weren't wool... 😆
I'm not being serious, of course. But for those who hate thermal paste, there's now graphite thermal pads which offer up to 35w/m-k that I've personally seen and used on machines with violently higher TDPs than any retro or even mid 2000's machine could dream of pulling off. People often use them for overclocking modern processors, and they keep up better than a lot of thermal paste- compare that to the 8.5w/m-k that Arctic Silver MX-4, an excellent thermal paste in my opinion, provides.
And they're usually at 30x30 or 40x40mm, but for exposed die CPUs and the such, you could easily cut them down with scissors. They're almost paper thin as well, so work well in applications where thermal paste would normally be used, but not regular thermal pads which are at least 1mm thick. I will be using one of these in my upcoming Athlon 64 build.
Also, that CPU and thermal paste job looks suspiciously similar to the CPU and thermal paste job that Tom's Hardware used in that video where they disable the thermal protections on the AMD board so the CPU commits die and joins its ancestors in Computer Hell, where every second of eternity is just spent rendering a massive complex 3D scene whose realism surpasses that of human understanding, just to have Computer Hell's administrator close the program down and reopen it when it finally gets done, making the CPU start all over again.