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Been trying to figure out why my PC is running slow (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Aaronjamt to c/pcmasterrace

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[–] rmtworks 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is a processor with some very dried-out looking thermal compound on it. I had to deal with a similar situation today on a machine I was working on.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you lick the old paste off the CPU like it was filling on an Oreo?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I usually do

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

As is tradition.

[–] Transcendant 3 points 1 year ago

I bought a GPU off ebay that had thermal paste like this, the pads were also worn as fuck. New thermal paste, new pads, and it went from shutting off every 5 mins / ridiculously slow speed to good as new. Amazing what a difference just fresh paste made