New PC builders almost always find trouble understanding the use case of thermal paste and its application. Thermal paste, also known as thermal grease, is used to ensure efficient cooling of the CPU.

Needing to know how to apply thermal paste may not be something you’ve had to deal with so far if you’ve freshly installed a CPU before, or if any coolers you’ve purchased have come with paste ...

Which thermal paste for CPU is best? While the very idea of putting paste inside an expensive and custom-made PC would seem like absolute lunacy to the uninitiated, the use of thermal paste can have a ...

A fresh paste is probably the last thing you need.

I've just ordered some Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste. When I first assembled my current PC, I applied too much paste because I spread it up to the edges of the heatspreader (picture here), which I later ...

CPU thermal paste is to assemblers and computer repairers, what the thread is to the fashion designer. This underlines the importance of this repair tool and why there must be adequate supply to ...

The Noctua NA-TPG1 is designed to stop you getting any goo lodged in the notches of your heatspreader when you apply thermal paste to your new AMD Socket AM5 CPU, acting as a thermal paste guard. AMD ...