Bet none of you have achieved what I have. Used up a single tube. Took me 5 years.
Bet none of you have achieved what I have. Used up a single tube. Took me 5 years.
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I have dozens of partially used tubes going all the way back to 2001, lol.
MX 4?
Over the past 27 years of PC building for myself and family members, I’ve probably only used 3 large tubes. But I’ve purchased way more than that, because if you let it sit too long it separates out of solution and you have to re-buy. I had that issue with Arctic Silver a few times.
Is this a 4g tube or bigger? I’ve used up several 4g Mx-4 tubes before
sorry to disappoint u but in our shop these usually last half a year
You’re supposed to have 5 of those in the junk drawer not one empty one. How did you fuck this up?
Took me 6 months get on my level.
Doesn’t thermal paste expire?
EDIT: NM, I’m thinking of solder paste. I have some that recommends refrigerating it.
I bought an XL tube a decade ago and its still going strong… I wonder if these things have a shelf life ;P
Why is your hand full of paste?
I used 3/4 of a tube of 45g of thermal paste for a single build because instead of using thermal pads, I used thermal paste for my ITX build in a [Streacom DB4](https://streacom.com/products/db4-fanless-mini-itx-case/). It’s a beautiful case designed to be fanless with the side panels as the heatsinks
I’ve been through two tubes this year.
I’ve had to buy three of them so far this year.
Nope, but I’m almost halfway through. I’m getting there. 🙂
Ove emptied like 4 1/2 tubes of kryonaut. I should just make my own at this point.
You mean the rest of you don’t forget where they get put and have to buy a new tube every time they need to use it?
I used the same tube in a month. 😐
Jokes on you, I thought I had to use the whole tube on my first build.
I buy, test, build, sell computers as a side hustle, and have used more thermal paste than toothpaste.
My kids found mine, it got smeared into the carpet…
I just used the thermal pad that came with the processor, same for the cooler, been running about 4 years now.
I repair computers for living. One tube barely lasts a week.
Hmm i built several PCs still have my noctua paste lol.
I used to fix laptops for a while around the community, and it took me 2 weeks to empty the syringe.
I initially thought a junkie posted a picture of a syringe with drugs in it and said he took 5 years to finish it. Then i checked the subreddit and immediately realised that it was a tube of thermal paste.
Note: I have been repairing PCs and laptops since 2010.. I’ve been using thermal pastes since then… How did i miss that????
I actually just finished one too, in a couple of days. They do taste kinda bad tough
I don’t believe for a second you didn’t shoot a bunch in the trash just to come here and brag. 😂
One in 5 years? That’s cute.
At work I went through 2x10g tubes in a year, and I didn’t even do that much repasting
I did 4 years with Conductonaut 😀
This happened to me pretty often when I worked in computer repair.
Single tube took me about 5 or 6 years. All my tools and things always go back where they came from. Multiple cpu swaps, a bad 2080 paste job from factory, and several old gpu purchases cus they are cool and i like having fun with old hardware finally ended my tube. Now i have shitty corsair stuff idk why i bought that i need to toss.
I go through about tube every 2-4 weeks.
I work at a repair shop
Been there, done that. It’s a weird feeling. I had a big tube of 5g of the MX-4, I think and I used it for everything in the last 2 years. But out of nowhere it was empty and I was shocked.
Uuuhm actually, I just finished the first one this year already and there are more to come 😅
just bought a fresh tube of thermal grizzly (the large one) because I couldn’t find my other one and I was about to swap mobo/cpu on my rig. finally got everything together and grabbed the old mobo box to store it after and low and behold… my other tube… now I have two large tubes and I should be set until next time (when I’ve successfully misplaced both)
Do you even repaste, bro?
yea but half of it is on your hand lol jk nice work
I use a 10g one in a less than one month timespan. I import and resell used tech for a living now.
I have an almost empty one. So I bought another, but this time 20 gram one.
Wait we aren’t supposed to use them once and lose them only to buy a new one and repeat the cycle?
I switched to a Kryosheet. I’m never using paste again.
Just buy a bigger tube then. Or more tubes as you never have one on hand when you need it.
Looks expired to me
I’ve used up a tube or 2 over the years… However every time I used up the tube it fucked me because I always expected there to be more.
I already used more than half of mine because of trouble shooting… In the end it was the CPU being dead (or the memory controller on the CPU).