Yes, You Can Use Toothpaste As Thermal Paste

I'm in a country side with no pc store near me . I had to make due with tooth paste

The cup will need a filling?

I used toothpaste as thermal paste both on Athlon II x4 CPU, and ATI Radeon 4850 GPU, The air cooler was stock AMD
The case was wide open because my country is near equator which is very hot and humid (And I dont have AC)
So I just shoot the PC using room fan

And in my area, dust would accumulate FAST
Thats why I usually re-cleans my PC twice a year, with or without thermal paste
and idiotly, I always forgot to buy thermal paste even tho i always said "I will buy it next time" lol
For those period of time (5-8 months), the paste has dried, but still works just fine

The PC built since 2009 intensely used until 2016ish, The motherboard broke because unstable grounding in my house
After that im using laptop until 2020ish (which, the battery also broke years later lol)
And now I have new PC (Using thermal on i3 12th)

But Im pretty sure, if i have the motherboard, that processor still can boot up again

Has anybody tried blue-tac yet 😂😂

My cpu thermal paste had dried out, I've got no option but use toothpaste

I used charcoal toothpaste, graphite from a pencil and petroleum jelly and so far so good

Next video, using another CPU as thermal paste

Thank you just apply some right now until i find some thermal paste. Run quiet now hope it will last.

my man casually gave away The Dentist's Secret... that fluoride slowly causes cavities...

Can i use toothpaste for 3 days only

Used non-fluoride toothpaste because I can't find my thermal paste. It does cool very well. Just checking out the video to know if its safe. May be for now till I order another one which will take weeks to get to me. I still wonder why I can't find any thermal paste in PC stores near me.

eh my intel core i5 2400 with the toothpaste should last a week

My thermal paste dried out so i put Vaseline in it and mixed it well with the dried thermal paste and re-installed the stock cooler and it worked well on my pentium gold g6400 with a maximum temperature of 62° (81° with dried thermal paste)

What about grease?

i used a toothpaste with high silica content... 😂 it worked better than a cheap paste

Toothpaste with a few drops of vegetable oil or a high temp cooking oil works amazingly . Used this compound for a solid month whilst waiting for my thermal paste to be delivered to me in remote Alaska :) .

How about petroleum jelly mixing it with graphite powder, graphite can resist high temperature and it can be found on pencils at your home.

True honey

But can you use thermal paste and toothpaste? 🤔

There's a computer store right outside my street, I just go up there. Literally a cheap no brand tube of thermal paste is good enough for basically any consumer system. Don't need to shell out for the high end stuff.

Interesting.
Thanks!

Tbh I used toothpaste from the past 3 years and my CPU and GPU both are fine

I just upgraded from Colgate whitening strips to Colgate baking soda and peroxide. Frosty mint finish that turns into a very thermally conductive powder afterwards.

Can you use moly grease?

What about mayonnaise? That uses more oil than water

I wonder if Dijon mustard is ok. That's all i got.

Can some one tell me wtf a cubernetty is ?

Can confirm.
My PC was overheating even after dusting so I took a look at the thermal paste and it was all dried up.
I couldnt for the life of me find my new thermal paste though so I used desitin and it worked like a charm for over month

But can you use thermal paste as toothpaste? (that's how I read the title the first time)

I used toothpaste almost every time in old times. never had issues. it was Pentium iv, core to do CPUs.

premature evaporation XD

Why did i get a toothpaste ad before this video

mmmm the forbidden Oreo

So it's like using bubble gum instead of Teflon tape. It does work, just not for very long and the boss will be pissed if he hears about it.

Why are people so obssessed over sugargarbage.

Any thick pasty matterial 🤣

does poo work tho?

Who don't have thermal paste?

Instructions unclear.

Filling holes as the meaning of life.

And here I was... thinking that life was all about filling holes! Thank you for clarifying!

i only upgrade when i can't run modern games anymore

thanks for the info , im hoping for more of this alternatives ways videos 👌

My ability to fill holes is not matched by any living man.

How about mayonaise

I used coconut oil mixed with the dried out thermal paste on my Ps4 I built and have had no problems yet I still need to open it back up and see how its doing after 2 years

Thermal paste "drying out" is not a problem. The oil is only there to facilitate application and allow the particles to pack down over time for better conductivity. "Dryness" only becomes a problem when the heatsink gets knocked around hard enough to break the settled paste interface which would otherwise last indefinitely. You don't get this from improvised paste substitute since those have volatile compounds and other ingredients that aren't chemically stable like zinc and aluminum oxides.

You didn't mention using no paste at all. Sometimes it has better performance than some goop you found in the house.

Stop CPU harrasment😡

You should test Copper Never Seize, that stuff never dries out…lol

If the fluorine is the only thing that stops you from trying toothpaste, don't worry about that. They wouldn't put the highly reactive (actually, THE most reactive) chemical element in the thing people put in their mouths, and even if they did (someone actually made radium in toothpaste a century ago, but I digress), by the time the toothpaste leave the factory, the the fluorine would've already reacted with the rest of the chemicals and become inactive. Do you know what else contains fluorine? PTFE, the thing that covers your frying pan.