Spent 6 months using the wrong thermal paste on my PS5 - here's how I found out

I was using this cheap Arctic Silver stuff on everything cause thats what I had laying around. My PS5 was hitting 80c on the regular and I just thought that was normal. Then my buddy came over with his modded PS5 and his temps were like 20 degrees lower. He asked what paste I used and laughed at me. Apparently the stock Sony paste is way thicker and you need something with higher viscosity for the direct die contact. I switched to Honeywell PTM7950 last week and my temps dropped to 62c under load. Has anyone else made this mistake or am I the only dummy who didnt know? What paste do you guys use for PS5?

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maryh962d ago

Ngl I still got a tube of Arctic Silver in my drawer from like 2015 that I'm afraid to throw away cause it feels like I'm admitting defeat. But bro 80c is crazy, mine was sitting at like 75 and I thought that was bad enough until I swapped to the PTM7950 and it dropped to 61. The thing that got me was how thick the factory stuff was, like almost hard to scrape off. I actually ended up using some paste meant for laptops cause I heard it handles the pressure better and it worked fine but now I'm wondering if I should redo it again with the Honeywell stuff.

noah_chen172d ago

Hold onto that Arctic Silver for another decade, that stuff is basically a thermal paste rite of passage at this point. But yeah, if you're already at 61 with the PTM7950 you're probably fine, don't fix what ain't broke.