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Warning: That cheap thermal paste you bought might be fake
I bought a 10 pack of "Arctic" thermal paste on Amazon for $8 last month for a batch of laptop repairs. First few jobs went fine, but then I had a Dell XPS 15 overheating after a CPU re-paste. Cracked open the tube and the stuff was grainy and separated like bad mayonnaise. Turns out there's a ton of counterfeit thermal paste floating around that doesn't transfer heat right. Has anyone else run into fake components that looked legit but failed on you?
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tyler620d ago
Huh. I've used cheap thermal paste for years on my own builds and never had a problem. Maybe you just got a bad batch?
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felix14717d ago
...and what really gets me is it's not just thermal paste. I bought a 10 pack of "Samsung" flash drives on Amazon last year, all in legit looking packaging, and three of them died within a week. The plastic felt cheap and the read speeds were awful. You know what really blew my mind though? I found a tutorial online where a guy tested fake thermal paste with a thermal camera, and the stuff was actually insulators instead of conductors. Like it was just thick grease that trapped heat. Makes you wonder if something cheap has really been tested at all.
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kelly_nelson9520d ago
The cheap stuff is always a gamble, not just a bad batch. Counterfeit thermal paste is pretty common on Amazon, especially in those multi-packs.
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