Durability of the paste depends on so many factors. They changed over the years drastically. I've re-pasted hundreds of PCs during my career and there were extreme cases, where I was afraid of breaking the socket on a Pentium 4 because it was stuck to the cooler. After I was able to separate them, I needed to use hard spudger to take the big flakes off the CPU. Owner said, the PC was 3 years old. It was overheating like hell, because owner kept it in very dusty room (cooler fins were totally blocked). CPU hit 100C after 2 seconds of load. After cleaning and re-pasting it went down to 60C under full load. On the other hand I've seen some 5-7 year old PCs that still had the paste in perfect condition. I always re-paste a PC that I didn't build myself and owner doesn't remember when it was last serviced. I also re-paste rendering machines or other heavy load ones at the company I work for once every 18 months, just to be on the safe side, because those PCs can work for 2-3 days at a time at 100% load and any unplanned downtime costs money. Normal PCs maybe once in 3 years if I don't know the brand of paste used.
@ChrisAsipyan
Ай бұрын
Thanks for the insight 👍
@Brysolated
Ай бұрын
my thermal paste lasted 14 years and wasnt crusty
@ChrisAsipyan
Ай бұрын
Nice. Do you remember what type of paste it was?
@lltalionll
Ай бұрын
Wow, that's insane and good to know even if you don't say which brand it's from (also interested to know). It seems overkill to change it too frequently and i'm too lazy for that, i have a R5 3600X with a noctua NH-U12A (for about 5 years) with the thermal paste that come with it, so it's not really that's old i think ^^ for a paste of that quality. I know someone who is like "I change my thermal paste every year while he also changed CPU 3 times in 5 less than five years... (9900K, 5800X3D, 7800X3D) and used a NH-D15 and now a 420 mm Artics AIO..." and he told me to change it frequently too, i also have others friends who are like "clean your PC multiples times a year etc." but honestly i'm lazy af and just need to clean the dust filters of my case sometimes because everytime i open it i'm like damn i made a great choice by buying that Meshify S2 without glass panel (hate RGB if it's not the whole room + PC + lamp synced but it's expensive, it's all or nothing because i think it don't look good otherwise). I remember i buyed a pack of (10 ?) noctua NF-A14 PWM sold by noctua official shop on amazon for the price of 8, i'm using 7 atm, sold the 3 others (never used) :D (shame they didn't do that anymore, it was the biggest pack but there was also smaller ones) and damn my PC is still cool and quiet. Needed 8, 3 front, 3 up and 2 down but i "only" use 7, 3 front, 3 up, 1 down (couldn't put on the second one because of the power cables), it was expensive and "probably" overkill but i don't regret. I think i will change it when i will upgrade and it might be in less than a year because damn those 5700X3D looks perfect for a cheap and last upgrade on AM4 ^^' (also waiting to see what AMD is cooking for the next gen of AM5 X3D CPU). Hope next year i will found a new AMD CPU + GPU combo for a correct price and double in performance increase without changing anything else. My 5700 XT is starting to get old, buyed it for only 400 euros (with a great air cooling system, for that price it was Gigabyte or Sapphire, other brands where too expensive or less efficient or both) right before covid and now when i saw the price and performance increase of medium range GPU i'm like : ok maybe next year (infinite loop). I also miss those day where YT channel like Gamer Nexus or Hardware Unboxed made VRM motherboard video (sometimes there is still some), GPU cooling testing (too much GPU now, i think) and game optimisation guide... (well at least there is still the revisit video of GN which can be really helpful).
@blorgin1
Ай бұрын
Can confirm that same brand of thermal paste was still pasty at 10 years
@ChrisAsipyan
Ай бұрын
Nice, good to know
@KarazP
Ай бұрын
My PC has never re-pasted for 8 years now. But in the temp room 27-28 Celsius the idle temp is 40-50 and in gaming,g it was 70-75 but overall it looks very fine lol My plan is I will re-pasted this boy after I complete my new build and I'm gonna use Graphene pad for my new PC. But I was very happy when I saw that cleanup... It was easier than I thought 😂
@ChrisAsipyan
Ай бұрын
Nice 👍
@trololoev
Ай бұрын
Most effective, reliable and less scary way to apply thermal paste is to spread it yourself before applying cooling. I don't understand why people risk their processors by using other risky methods of thermal paste applying (like you do) if they objectively worse.
@alejandrocalori6298
Ай бұрын
It's an old (centered die) cpu. It's not one of the new ones where the cores are offset.
@ChrisAsipyan
Ай бұрын
Thanks for the advice, will look into this method for my next pc build. Especially with the newer cpu's.
@sinneddragon
Ай бұрын
What brand did you original have on there 7 years ago?
@ChrisAsipyan
Ай бұрын
It was a generic tube of paste that came with the CPU cooler. The tube simply had the CPU coolers brand name on it.
@emhyr344
Ай бұрын
Usually how many years before a thermal paste expires? And how to tell if it is expired any pc experts can help?
@ChrisAsipyan
Ай бұрын
I too would like some feedback about this from someone more experienced
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