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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.

xBoom

Um...not unless you just happen to have some silver lying around....

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taylormsj

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

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highrev15k

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

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.

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oscaryu1

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.

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diduknowthat

Like said above toothpaste works good for a couple of days

. But only the smooth kind

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StrangleHold

Don't be an idiot and wait for tomorrow.

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nexolus

Well said nexolus..

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.

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dan_plus_o

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!

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