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Rant: Everyone says thermal paste needs replacing every year but that's just a waste of time and money

I pulled apart a 6 year old Dell Optiplex last week, scraped off the crusty factory paste, and the temps were only 3 degrees higher than a fresh application so why are we all pretending this matters for office PCs that never hit 80C?
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adam_hernandez
My buddy ran his gaming rig 5 years on stock paste, temps barely budged.
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benk26
benk261mo ago
Nah, but on a gaming rig that actually gets hot that crusty paste is gonna cost you real performance.
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