After five years, wet thermal paste may lose effectiveness and could be unsuitable for use.
After five years, wet thermal paste may lose effectiveness and could be unsuitable for use.
Hello. Welcome to the forum. After many years, I chose to refresh an old Dell Inspiron 620 with a relatively new i5 4th gen chip, motherboard, and memory setup I had made five years prior. I believed it was a solid chance to replace the thermal paste, but to my dismay, it remained wet in some areas. The heatsink used the original Intel thermal paste. Is this typical? Or could it be that I applied too much paste? Greetings from Argentina
it seems fine with this, better than nothing at all. you'll need to swap the paste soon though...