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That guy who said to use thermal paste on PS5 heat sinks was a moron
Some dude in a Facebook group kept insisting that replacing the liquid metal on the PS5 APU with standard thermal paste was a better idea because it wouldn't dry out. I figured what the hell, I had some Arctic MX-4 laying around, tried it last month. Played Spider-Man 2 for about 20 minutes and the console shut off from overheating. The paste couldn't keep up with the heat output at all, temps shot up to like 85C before it crashed. Had to carefully clean all that gunk off the heatsink and reapply the liquid metal. Cost me $12 for a new syringe of Conductonaut and an extra hour of work. Anyone else tried something that sounded smart but totally backfired on a mod?
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blairj554d ago
Used Arctic MX-4 on my old Xbox One once and it shut down after 10 minutes of Halo.
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uma_nguyen244d ago
50 bucks says your thermal paste was too thick or you didn't tighten the heatsink right. I used to think paste was paste but after frying a GPU once I learned it really matters how you apply it.
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