Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

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 ...

Thermalright released a new type of thermal pad aimed at taking all the hassle out of applying thermal paste to a CPU. Rather than a tube of paste, Heilos is a 0.2mm-thick pad of thermal compound that ...

Evaluating a thermal paste is tricky business. It’s a little like network engineering – when it works properly, you don’t notice. Still, there are a number of thermal pastes out there, and they all ...

Replacing your laptop's thermal paste is not only relatively easy, but it's a great way to ensure your computer has a long ...

It has been a little over a year since I repasted my old Ryzen 9 5900X, which I used to build my PC back in 2020. Until then, I treated thermal paste application as a one-time thing. After all, I used ...

Ahmad is a writer with a passion for gaming since he was 8. Now, with a medical degree in hand, he has more time to do what he loves: play video games, upgrade his gaming rig, and write about tech.

Repasting is cheap and easy to do, generally. I'd give that a shot. While you're doing that, make sure no dust bunnies have built a nest in the heatsink fins. Modern systems will park cores and do ...

If you've every thought thermal paste was a bit boring, you would have been right...until today! Cooler Master for some reason or another has decided to paint a CPU using its multi-colored Cryofuze 5.

A Core i7-12700K survived three years in a prebuilt PC with no thermal paste applied. Intel's thermal protection likely kept the processor within its operating limits.

Developing high-power electronic devices with their simultaneous miniaturization is of critical importance. Consequently, the compactness in computers calls for higher integration of transistors ...